While listening to “The Sound of Ideas Tour on the Future of Shaker Lakes,” I was disappointed that every community speaker supported the preservation of Lower Shaker Lake. These lakes were created by ...
Over the years, an increasing number of dams have been taken out. Between 1912 and 2025, some 2,350 dams have been removed, ...
More miles of the country’s rivers were reconnected last year thanks to dam removals than at any other time in history.
Historic river project: The Klamath River dam removal is among the largest in U.S. history, designed to restore natural flows and revive salmon migration routes. Balancing impacts: Though sediment ...
American Rivers, a national conservation group, is working with Metropolitan Sewerage District of Buncombe County to analyze ...
For more than a decade, American Rivers, an environmental advocacy non-profit, has been working to remove dams along the Patapsco River. American Rivers is attempting to restore the river to what it ...
MILWAUKIE, Ore. — The obsolete Kellogg Dam in Clackamas County will soon be removed, thanks to a $10 million grant from Metro. The removal of the 176-year-old dam is part of a broader Kellogg Creek ...
EASTHAMPTON — Easthampton has secured grant funding to study the impacts of destruction of the Manhan River Dam and fish ladder, which could save significant costs to the city and improve the health ...
The blare of a siren and the shout of “Fire in the hole!” across a PA system heralded the end of the Condit Dam on the White Salmon River in 2011. Yet about 50 miles away — and almost 13 years later — ...
FERC found that leaving the dams in place would not affect fisheries or federally protected species. A federal court ruled Tuesday that U.S. energy regulators acted appropriately by not ordering the ...
The report said 24,000 cubic yards of sediment in the impoundment behind the Wheelwright dam was likely to become “mobile” after the dam comes down.
Record flooding pushed Michigan's dams to the brink of disaster. The near miss reflects the national problem of ...