Sunday, April 6, 2014 at 12:02AM DamNation was presented with the “Documentary Award for Environmental Advocacy,” and a $10,000 cash prize, by the 2014 Environmental Film Festival in Washington, D.C.
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Thursday, March 13, 2014 at 12:00AM
This short video showcases a restoration project at the Fort Collins North Shields Ponds Natural Area, including the removal of the Josh Ames Diversion structure.
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Exeter voters pass Great Dam Removal
Voters passed by a vote of 1,440 yes to 753 a petitioned warrant article seeking $1,786,758 to remove the Great Dam in downtown Exeter in an effort to restore the Exeter River to its natural condition, reduce flooding, and stop environmental damage.
The proposal, which needed at least a 60 percent majority vote to pass, received about 65 percent of the vote.
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Federal study recommends Green River dam removal
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has proposed removing a dam on the Green River near Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky.
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Pigg River Dam removal closer to reality
Friends of the Rivers of Virginia has been working with the Creek Freaks, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Franklin County, Town of Rocky Mount and other groups to partially remove the dam and restore 2.2 miles of the Pigg River upstream of the dam.
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Groups seek to remove old dams on Evans Creek
Two of Oregon's worst wild fish barriers could be removed from Evans Creek as early as the summer of 2015 under a plan to open as much as 70 miles of prime spawning habitat for the Rogue River Basin's wild salmon and steelhead.
WaterWatch of Oregon has teamed with local conservation groups, angling clubs and state and federal agencies to get the creek's two unused and abandoned dams — Fielder and Wimer — and their antiquated fish ladders out of the way of migrating salmon, including threatened wild coho.
The dams, which date back more than 100 years, are on the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's Top 10 list for worst wild fish impediments in Oregon.
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State OK's funding to remove Springborn Dam in Enfield
The Conneticut State Bond Commission approved spending $1 million to remove the state-owned Springborn Dam on the Scantic River.
Removing the dam would open up three additional miles of spawning habitat for American shad, river herring, sea lamprey and eels, state officials said.
LINK (via: The Courant)
Maybe on of these days Stanford will get their shit together?
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So far about 3 million cubic yards of sediment -- enough to fill about 300,000 dump trucks -- has been released from the giant bathtubs of sediment that formed behind the two hydroelectric dams upstream. And that’s only 16 percent of what’s expected to be delivered downstream in the next five years.
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The world premier of Damnation took place yesterday at SXSW.
This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers. Dam removal has moved beyond the fictional Monkey Wrench Gang to go mainstream. Where obsolete dams come down, rivers bound back to life, giving salmon and other wild fish the right of return to primeval spawning grounds, after decades without access. DamNation’s majestic cinematography and unexpected discoveries move through rivers and landscapes altered by dams, but also through a metamorphosis in values, from conquest of the natural world to knowing ourselves as part of nature.
We like to fish.
We like to eat.
We like to get outside.
Free flowing, healthy rivers support this.
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80,000 dams, 51 interviews, one film – and now one hat.
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Communities in 18 states, working in partnership with non-profit organizations and state and federal agencies, removed 51 dams in 2013. Outdated or unsafe dams came out of rivers in Alabama, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, restoring more than 500 miles of streams for the benefit of fish, wildlife, and people.
American Rivers will add the information on these 51 dam removals to its database of nearly 1,150 dams that have been removed across the country since 1912. Most of those dams (nearly 850) were removed in the past 20 years. Dam removal can have many benefits for communities including restoring river health and clean water, revitalizing fish and wildlife, improving public safety and recreation, and enhancing local economies.
See the full list over at American Rivers.
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