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SF Chronicle: Take Down the Klamath Dams

By: Keith Nakatani  Thursday February 8, 2007
Region: California
Key Words: dam removal | Klamath
States: California
Project: Klamath : P-2082

An editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle laid out the case for removal of the Klamath River dams, calling the potential restoration "an amazing change."


Wall Street Journal: Dam the Salmon

By: Rebecca Sherman  Thursday May 31, 2007

The Wall Street Journal published an opinion-editorial called "Dam the Salmon," which criticizes the removal of any hydropower dams. Read American Rivers' response.


The cost of removing dams on Michigan's Muskegon Au Sable and Manistee rivers

By: Rebecca Sherman  Wednesday June 6, 2007

A condition of a 1992 settlement required Consumers Energy to study retirement of its eleven hydropower dams and publicly report on its findings.


Marmot Dam becomes the largest dam removed in Oregon

By: Rebecca Sherman  Sunday July 29, 2007
Region: Northwest
States: Oregon
Project: Bull Run : P-477

July 24, 2007: PGE begins removal of its Bull Run hydropower project with a bang! A construction crew detonated an explosion to weaken Marmot Dam on the Sandy River before removing the dam.


Benefit Dinner to Un-dam Klamath

By: Rupak Thapaliya  Tuesday February 19, 2008
Project: Klamath : P-2082

Klamath Riverkeeper is organizing a benefit dinner on Mar 14 in Bayside, CA to help bring down the four obsolete dams in the Klamath River.


Information portal on Elwha Watershed and Dam Removal

By: Rupak Thapaliya  Monday April 21, 2008
Region: Northwest
States: Washington

The University of Idaho has developed the Elwha Watershed Information Resource, to facilitate information sharing among stakeholders for restoration of Elwha watershed after dam removal.


Fort Halifax dam comes down, Sebasticook revives

By: Rupak Thapaliya  Friday July 18, 2008

With the start of dam breaching, this week marked an end to the long controversy in removal of Fort Halifax dam