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The Trabuco District Dam Removal Project is an initiative of the Cleveland National Forest to remove over 80 dams on four streams. The "fish check dams" were originally built to create pools for a stocked rainbow trout fishery and to store water for conservation and fire suppression.
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history has freed the Klamath River, ... The Klamath River's dams are being removed. Inside the effort to restore a scarred watershed ... Updates: 1:33 p.m ...
The 46-foot (14 m) [2] Brown Bridge Dam [broken anchor], 56-foot (17 m) [3] Boardman Dam [broken anchor], and 34-foot (10 m) [4] Sabin Dam [broken anchor] were removed from the Boardman River in Michigan as part of the Boardman River Dams Ecosystem Restoration Project after their hydropower was decommissioned in 2005.
Most importantly, persevere: Dam removal takes a lot of resources and careful planning, but compared to the vast benefits healthy rivers provide, the investment and effort are worth it.
Removal of this privately-owned hydropower dam in western North Carolina will be a boon for rafters, kayakers and tubers by allowing the river to flow freely for nearly 80 miles (129 kilometers).
The dam is owned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. [1] Link River Dam's reservoir, Klamath Lake, has a capacity of 873,000 acre-feet (1.077 × 10 9 m 3). The project provides flood control, generates hydro power, and stores most of the water used for irrigation in the Klamath Reclamation Project. The dam is 22 feet (7 m) high and 435 feet (133 ...
The Paulina Dam's removal is being done in stages to allow the river level to gradually recede into its original streambed without a rush of silt downstream. The work also included building a ...
There are several ways dams can be removed and the chosen method will depend on many factors. The size and type of the dam, the amount of sediment behind the dam, the aquatic environment below the dam, who owns the dam and what their priorities are, and the timeframe of dam removal are all factors that affect how the dam will be removed. [9]