If you want to PM me your email address I will scan and email you copies of testimony I have from proceedings in the late 40's early 50's on this issue. They indicate that while Paugus Bay might have been raised the Lake itself was not raised by damming. The channel was dredged to allow the old mill companies to draw the lake down further than it naturally could have been. More drawdown capacity meant more hydropower for the mills. As the mills became less of an economic power and tourism became more of one the deep drawdowns became an issue and in the 40's the legislature stepped in and passed a law limiting the level to which the mill could lower the lake during the summer.
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