Pressure Mounts on Stanford University to Consider Removing Searsville Dam 
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 12:00AM
Eric Rathbun in Conservation, Environment, american rivers, searsville dam

A growing coalition of conservation groups, leading scientists, Stanford alumni and Bay Area residents are pressuring Stanford University to consider removing Searsville Dam, an obsolete structure that has blocked steelhead migration in the San Francisquito Creek watershed for more than a century and serves no drinking water supply, flood control or hydropower function.

LINK (Via: Center for Bio-Diversity)

For more information on how you can help go to Beyond the Searsville Dam, a project of American Rivers.

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