Tear Down ‘Deadbeat’ Dams







The LA Times gives some high profile love to DamNation.
"That's the reason I'm in business," said Chouinard, an avid fly fisherman who recently returned from a fishing trip to British Columbia. "I couldn't care less about making more money or making more clothes. I want to use business to inspire solutions to the environmental crisis."
LINK (via: LA Times)
California American Water, with partners NOAA Fisheries and the California State Coastal Conservancy, announced today that the second season of construction for the San Clemente Dam Removal Project will begin this May. The project’s three year construction schedule began last summer and is on-track for completion next year. San Clemente Dam is a 106-foot-high concrete arch dam located 18 miles upstream from the Pacific Ocean on the Carmel River in Monterey County.
It is the largest dam removal project in California history.
Aspen Public Radio covers the DamNation screening at 5Point Film Festival this Saturday in Carbondale CO.
Why bother making a film about dams if you don’t have footage of one blowing up?
Especially footage obtained in monkey wrench fashion by filmmaker Ben Knight.
LINK (via: Mountain Film)
Running through downtown Palo Alto and Menlo Park, San Francisquito Creek harbors one of the last wild steelhead runs in the San Francisco Bay. However, Stanford's Searsville Dam blocks them from reaching critical year round streams, leaving the next generation to wonder who is responsible for the deaths of threatened steelhead in the creek.