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Rindge Dam Removal : A Review of Regional Ecologic and Economic Benefits And Options for Removal

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Title: Rindge Dam Removal : A Review of Regional Ecologic and Economic Benefits And Options for Removal
Creator: Jim Edmondson
Suzanne Dallman
California Trout
Date Created and/or Issued: 1/8/02
Contributing Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Water Resources Collections and Archives
Collection: Clearinghouse for Dam Removal Information (CDRI)
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Description: Scope/Content: Abstract: Rindge Dam, located on Malibu Creek in Southern California, has been an obsolete facility for over forty-five years. It serves no beneficial functions, such as flood control, water supply, or hydropower generation, because it is completely filled with sediment. To the contrary, it stores materials critically needed to replenish the eroding and economically important beaches of the Santa Monica Bay, while restricting one of the most important runs of steelhead along the Pacific coast to a small fraction of the total potential habitat within the Malibu Creek watershed. In 1997 the southern steelhead trout was listed as endangered by National Marine Fisheries Service, under the federal Endangered Species Act. The key to restoring southern steelhead in Malibu Creek is to remove Rindge Dam and allow these fish, for the first time since 1926 when the dam was completed, to gain access to their historic spawning and rearing habitat. Since the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation published its appraisal report on options to remove Rindge Dam (USBR 1995), and the US Army Corps of Engineers conducted its reconnaissance study to determine federal interest in the restoration of Malibu Creek (Corps 1998), additional information has surfaced that is relevant to current steelhead recovery planning for Malibu Creek ...
Scope/Content: Dam type: arch
Scope/Content: Dam type: concrete
Scope/Content: Reservoir size: 800000 Height: 100 Length: 175
Scope/Content: Date constructed: 1926. Date removed: n/a.
Type: text
Form/Genre: digital copy
Identifier: ark:/86086/n20p0zqv
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Subject: Ecology and river restoration
Economics
Sediment and channel dynamics
Dams
Dam retirement
Place: Malibu Creek, CA
Rindge Dam
US

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