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The Klamath River Hydroelectric Project was a series of hydroelectric dams and other facilities on the mainstem of the Klamath River, in a watershed on both sides of the California-Oregon border. The infrastructure was constructed between 1903 and 1962, the first elements engineered and built by the California Oregon Power Company ("Copco").
Demonstrators calling for removal of dams on the Klamath River in Oregon and California, U.S. (2006). Un-Dam the Klamath (#UnDamtheKlamath) is a social movement in the United States to remove the dams on the Klamath River primarily because they obstruct salmon, steelhead, and other species of fish from accessing the upper basin which provides hundreds of miles of spawning habitat.
A new agreement, the Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement (KHSA) was signed on April 6, 2016, which planned to remove four hydroelectric dams (the Copco 1, Copco 2, J.C. Boyle, and Iron Gate) by 2020. [8] In November 2022, federal approval was granted for the dam removals, with deconstruction efforts commencing in 2023. [9]
The removal of the four hydroelectric dams — Iron Gate Dam, Copco Dams 1 and 2, and JC Boyle Dam — allows the region’s iconic salmon population to swim freely along the Klamath River and its ...
The removal of four Klamath River dams along the California-Oregon border is in the spotlight — and for good reason. It is the largest dam removal in our nation’s history and represents the ...
The removal of the four dams, which were built without tribes’ consent between 1912 and the 1960s, has cleared the way for California to return more than 2,800 acres of ancestral land to the ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday announced the completion of final efforts to remove the state’s massive and controversial Klamath dams. The elimination of these barricades — the ...
The John C. Boyle Dam is one of four on the Klamath River that was removed under the Klamath Economic Restoration Act. [5] As of February 2016, the states of Oregon and California, the dam owners, federal regulators and other parties reached an agreement to remove all four dams by the year 2020, pending approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory ...