WHEN THE Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recommended repairs be made to the dam at Stillwater Reservoir, in the Town of Webb, the plan was to draw the water down gradually, beginning in spring 2001, with work to continue throughout the summer. The reservoir was scheduled to drop by about twenty-five feet, but the dry summer lowered it by as much as twenty-eight feet. It doesn‘t sound like a big difference until you consider that, at its lowest point, on August 10, the reservoir was less than four percent full. Some of the small lakes that had been obliterated by the damming of the Beaver River were visible and landlocked again.
