Restricted Areas at Dams

[condusivecranker]

Speaking of all of this, I've always wondered what is exactly in that large tower against the dam. I imagine its some sort of control room, but I've always wondered if its like most dams where you can walk down to the interior of the gates, etc. I've seen a few corps guys walk into it before.
Just my curiosity. And I've actually been down in the tailwater before at high flow and seen hybrids/shad coming through the dam, so I know that area around the dam has to be teeming with fish!

[BigPoppy]

I have only been to the door level because of the Corp rules, but the drive gears for the gates below the water line are housed and operated there is also many monitors set up in the tower that monitor the water quality, temperature, O2 levels and thermal clim(spelling?)and there is more than one gate there is the By Pass and there is the Main gate. There is also swinging tiller that swings the current from side to side when the main gate is open, this makes the errosion even on the spillway below. There are also barrier post in the spill way it's self to disrupt the flow also and as a by product creates ambush points for for those state record Hybrids.