Gold Ray Dam Removal Project in Time-lapse

The removal of Gold Ray Dam located on Oregon's Rogue River in 2010 provided a unique opportunity to remove one of the last fish barriers on the Rogue River. Additionally, funding tied to habitat allowed Jackson County to remove a deteriorating structure and any potential future liabilities. This video shows the removal process from start to finish using time-lapse photography.

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The Yellowstone is not the longest “undammed river” in the United States

Though free of large impoundments such as those on the Missouri, the Yellowstone is not the longest “undammed river” in the United States, as it is often described. Diversion dams block the river at six sites between Billings and Sidney. Like 12-Mile Dam on the Tongue, the Yellowstone’s Huntley, Waco-Custer, Rancher’s Ditch, Yellowstone, Cartersville, and Intake diversion dams were built decades ago to provide water for crop irrigation.

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Those diversion dams are responsible for the loss of hundreds of thousands of fish annually who move in the diversion canals along with the water. Now two giant fish screens have been installed which will help save fish on the Yellowstone.

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New life for the Carmel River

The Carmel River Reroute and San Clemente Dam Project is the largest dam removal project ever to occur in California and one of the largest to occur on the West Coast.  This groundbreaking project sets precedence for other dam removal and river restoration projects in California and nationwide.

When complete, the project will remove the 106 foot high antiquated dam and implement a watershed restoration process that will bring the Carmel River back to life.

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Congressional hearing: Committee to take up Klamath dam debate

A year and a half after congressional legislation was introduce to give the green light to Klamath dam removal, the issue will have its first congressional hearing by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources in June.

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Project to remove San Clemente dam given the green light

Another one bites the dust!

The $83 million project includes removal of the 106-foot dam which was built in 1921 and is 15 miles above Carmel. The dam, which was ruled seismically unsafe in the 1990s, has been out of use for years and has millions of cubic feet of silt behind it. The project also includes re-routing the Carmel River and removing the old Carmel River dam. It is expected to improve the river's natural habitat for endangered steelhead and other protected species.

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And she’s not slowing down.

As the release of DamNation, a documentary film produced by Patagonia and Stoecker Ecological in conjunction with Felt Soul Media approaches, The Cleanest Line profiles folk-singer, desert goddess, rabble-rouser and all-out spitfire Katie Lee who is featured in the film.

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