Protecting Rivers & Your Clean Water
Year of the River: Dam Removals in the Pacific NW
Devin Dotson, Associate Director of Communications
December 10, 2012 | Dams & Dam Removal
Autumn has been an incredibly exciting time at American Rivers, as it marks the one-year anniversary of the world’s largest dam removal project. Because of efforts like the historic river restoration initiative in Washington state—which included removal of the Glines Canyon Dam and the Elwha Dam on the Elwha River beginning last September, and the Condit Dam on the White Salmon River which began last October—American Rivers dubbed 2011 “The Year of the River.”
Read more »Owl Moon Near the Tuolumne River
Luke Hunt, Ph.D., Director, Headwaters Conservation
December 7, 2012
Somehow I heard it take flight as we stepped from the wet brush into the autumn meadow. It was the afternoon before Thanksgiving and I had enlisted my dad, son Jake, and a dear friend to help survey two twin meadows at the edge of Yosemite National Park.
Read more »Urban Rivers: Managing Clean Water In The City
Katherine Baer, Senior Director, Clean Water and Water Supply Programs
December 5, 2012 | Urban Rivers, Stormwater & Sewage
I’ll never forget the moment I watched, astonished, a tall man nonchalantly wad up his burger wrapper, step into the street, and toss it directly into the storm drain that led to the Chattahoochee River. How could he not know that streams in our cities are often right beneath us, hidden and buried away, but still leading to our creeks and eventually our rivers?
Read more »Fiscal Cliff Spending Cuts Threaten Rivers and Clean Water
William Robert (Bob) Irvin, President
December 4, 2012 | Dams & Dam Removal, Water Pollution
We don’t have to leap off the fiscal cliff like lemmings to the sea. To achieve this, however, we need a balanced solution, one that relies on sensible budget cuts that do not harm programs that provide enormous benefits to our nation, along with responsible revenue increases that are applied fairly across our society.
Read more »Removing the Milburnie Dam, Neuse River, North Carolina
Lynnette Batt, Associate Director, River Restoration Program, NC
December 4, 2012 | Dams & Dam Removal
A public workshop for the Milburnie Dam removal project on the Neuse River in North Carolina will be held this Thursday December 6. The Milburnie Dam was proposed for removal over two years ago, and is now near approval. American Rivers strongly supports this project.
Read more »Enter the 2012 National River Cleanup Photo Contest
November 29, 2012 | National River CleanupIt’s time to celebrate the river cleanups of 2012. To ring in the new year in proper fashion: The 2012 National River Cleanup Photo Contest will run now through the end of the year on Facebook. In the beginning of January voting on the top ten photo finalists will begin. A winner will be chosen and featured on American Rivers website, blog posts and various publications throughout 2013.
Read more »Reducing Flooding and Cleaning Water in Columbia, South Carolina
Rebecca Haynes, Associate Director, Southeast Conservation
November 28, 2012 | Floods & Floodplains, Stormwater & Sewage
You don’t normally think of the southeast when you think about green infrastructure, but we are working to change that. There are cities all over the southeast that are integrating green infrastructure into their solutions to the many problems that excessive stormwater runoff creates. Columbia, SC is the latest to move forward with the idea. The stormwater system is aging and inadequate.
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