Protecting Rivers & Your Clean Water
Removing Dufresnse Dam on the Battenkill will restore trout habitat
Brian Graber, Director, River Restoration Program, Northeast Region
May 1, 2012 | Dams & Dam Removal
Brian Graber of our River Restoration Program tours the Dufresne Dam site on the Battenkill in Manchester, Vermont, which is planned for removal in summer 2012.
Read more »Removing Briggsville Dam restores North Branch Hoosic River (MA)
Brian Graber, Director, River Restoration Program, Northeast Region
April 30, 2012 | Dams & Dam Removal
Brian Graber of our River Restoration Program shows off the restored site of a former dam on the North Branch of the Hoosic River in Clarksburg Massachusetts a year and a half after dam removal.
Read more »Watching Montana's Clark Fork River Come Back to Life
Michael Fiebig, Montana Campaign Coordinator, Wyss Fellow
March 28, 2012 | Water Pollution, Dams & Dam Removal
The Clark Fork, flowing through Missoula, Montana, is no longer the same river that it was when I lived near its banks during graduate school. Back then paddlers, swimmers, and fishermen had to contend with long green plumes of “rock snot” that blanketed the river bottom and made for difficult, slippery wading in river sandals. Today one instead finds ever shifting gravel bars composed of clean, multi-colored rocks. It’s as if the Clark Fork River recently received a scrub.
Read more »Horse Creek Dam: Six Years After it was Blown to Bits.
March 7, 2012 | Water Pollution, Dams & Dam RemovalThrough the joint efforts of American Rivers and several partner agencies and organizations, the defunct Horse Creek Dam in the San Rafael Wilderness near Santa Barbara, CA, was demolished in October 2006 by a blasting crew. This momentous occasion set the precedent as the first successful dam removal project in Southern California that used explosives instead of heavy machinery.
Read more »Huge Step Forward for Yuba Salmon Restoration!
March 5, 2012 | Dams & Dam Removal, Most Endangered Rivers, Water PollutionOn February 29, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) issued a much anticipated plan for how the Corps of Engineers must change its Englebright Dam and Daguerre Point Dam on the Yuba River to eliminate the dams’ contribution to the risk of extinction of Yuba salmon, steelhead and green sturgeon.
Read more »Don't Let Lake Delhi Destroy the Maquoketa River
February 16, 2012 | Dams & Dam RemovalI would like to respond to the Gazette’s recent article about the fate of Lake Delhi ( “Lake Delhi debate comes down to environmental vs. residents’ interests”). I agree with the concerns raised by the DNR and other conservation groups, but I believe the fundamental issue around Lake Delhi stems from a failure to appreciate the benefits and character of free-flowing rivers and misconceptions about the economics of dams.
Read more »Watch the final video in our Year of the River series
Amy Souers Kober, Senior Director of Communications
February 15, 2012 | Dams & Dam Removal
We released a short film today with our partners at American Whitewater and the Hydropower Reform Coalition that tells the story of historic dam removal successes on Washington's Elwha and White Salmon rivers. The seven-minute film premiered at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival in January and is the final installment in the “Year of the River” series by filmmaker Andy Maser.
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