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Lake Aldred water levels will be lowered on Wednesday (11/18) and Thursday (11/19) to allow for maintenance at PPL’s Holtwood hydroelectric plant. During that time, recreational boating is not recommended on the lake because of shallower water.

The maintenance work will involve replacing or repairing flashboards, large wooden boards used to raise the elevation of water held back by the dam. The boards, fixed to steel pins atop the concrete dam, make the Holtwood hydroelectric plant — a source of clean, renewable energy — more productive and efficient, and raise the level of Lake Aldred for boating.

The marker buoys 1,000 feet upstream of the dam will also be removed for the season.

Lake Aldred is an 8-mile-long body of water formed by the Holtwood Dam and hydroelectric plant on the lower Susquehanna River. PPL owns and operates the dam and recreational facilities on both sides of the lake, including boat ramps at Pequea and York Furnace.

For information on the current river conditions, call the Lower Susquehanna Hot Line at 1-800-692-6328.

PPL recently received approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to increase generation of clean, renewable energy at Holtwood and improve migratory fish passage and recreational opportunities.

The expansion project, with an estimated cost of $440 million, would add enough renewable energy to power 100,000 typical homes. PPL’s planned 125-megawatt increase in generating capacity would more than double Holtwood’s existing generating capacity of 108 megawatts.

PPL Corporation, headquartered in Allentown, Pa., owns or controls nearly 12,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the United States, sells energy in key U.S. markets and delivers electricity to about 4 million customers in Pennsylvania and the United Kingdom.