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Dam removals and restoration projects


Restoring Damaged Rivers - - American Rivers

We have directly worked on more than 200 dam removals and helped many other projects by assisting government agencies and nonprofits to expand their capacity to ...

World's Biggest Dam Removal Project to Open 420 Miles of Salmon ...

In April, NOAA scientists, restoration specialists, and the head of NOAA Fisheries, Janet Coit, gathered on a slope above the Klamath River to ...

Dam Removal and River Restoration - USDA Forest Service

Staged dam removal A dam removal project that proceeds in stages, drawing out the reservoir drawdown by incrementally dismantling a dam. Thermocline A ...

Saying Adios to 80 Dams in 2023 - - American Rivers

As a nationwide leader in river restoration, American Rivers tracks dam removal trends and maintains a national dam removal database. A total of ...

The Ecological Benefits of Dam Removal - Tighe & Bond

These three projects are in various stages of design and/or construction, showcasing how the removal of an unneeded dam can benefit communities ...

Dam Removal - Resource Environmental Solutions

Restoring at Scale · Dam Removal & River Restoration · Dams are complex, and must achieve a tenuous balance between their intended function and natural resource ...

Klamath River dams fully removed ahead of schedule

While the dam removal portion of the project is now complete, work will continue for several years restoring the 2,200 acres of formerly ...

Dam Removals | 501c3 Non-Profit Project Partner

Removing obsolete dams can be an effective way to restore rivers and their ecosystem services while reconnecting aquatic habitat. Removing these older dams can ...

Incorporating climate change into restoration decisions

With the average age of U.S. dams over 50 years old (ASCE 2021) and new funding sources designated for dam safety and removal projects (e.g., Infrastructure ...

Coming together to restore our rivers: notes on a dam removal ...

Over the last decade, Avi noted, the field has proven the concept that communities can – through dam removal and water infrastructure ...

Removing Dams and Reconnecting Rivers - The Nature Conservancy

Maintenance and repair of an aging dam is costly, and in many cases removing it is the cheaper and more ecologically conscious option. The Nature Conservancy is ...

Historic dam removal poses challenge of restoring both river and ...

Four large dams along the Klamath River in California and Oregon are scheduled to be torn down by the end of 2024. Although two dams will remain ...

Dam removal and river restoration - USGS Publications Warehouse

... present considerations for undertaking a dam removal project, and discuss case-studies and recent syntheses describing the ecological outcomes of dam removal...

Four Exciting Dam-removal Projects to Watch - The Revelator

The most anticipated upcoming dam-removal project in the United States will be on the Klamath River in California and Oregon. It's the first ...

Dam Removals and River Restoration in International Perspective

universal dimension of dam and weir removal projects, and understanding how science becomes politicised in New England dam removals involves laying bare how ...

Large-Scale Dam Removal and Ecosystem Restoration - Frontiers

The dam removals occurred within 571 unique projects involving 1–18 dams. When adjusted for inflation into 2020 USD, cost of these projects totaled $1.522 ...

River Restoration & Dam Removal - Save The Bay

Removal of a dam is one of the best tools for river restoration. While fish ladders provide select species with passage over a dam, removal of the dam restores ...

Dam Removal: The Federal Role - CRS Reports

... removals have occurred at less than 10% of dam removals ... Restoration Fund supported at least two dam removal projects managed by BLM (“Joint.

Restoring the Klamath River Basin | Episode 31 - NOAA Fisheries

The restoration of the Klamath watershed, spanning 15,000 miles of California and Oregon, is the largest dam removal project in history. It will ...

Dam removals, restoration project on Klamath River expected to ...

Dam removals on the Klamath River in Oregon and California are expected to restore salmon habitat originally altered more than 100 years ...