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Dam removal success stories : restoring rivers through selective removal of dams that don't make sense

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Title: Dam removal success stories : restoring rivers through selective removal of dams that don't make sense
Creator: American Rivers
Friends of the Earth
Trout Unlimited
Date Created and/or Issued: 12/1/99
Publication Information: Friends of the Earth ; American Rivers ; Trout Unlimited
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: Over the past 100 years, the United States led the world in dam building--blocking and harnessing rivers for a variety of purposes, including hydropower, irrigation, flood control, and water storage. The US Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) has catalogued approximately 75,000 dams greater than six feet tall along the waterways of the United States1 -- and at least tens of thousands of smaller dams plug our rivers across the country. (The National Research Council estimates that the number of US dams is over 2.5 million.2) US Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt recently observed, "that means we have been building, on average, one large dam a day, every single day, since the Declaration of Independence."3
Type: text
Identifier: ark:/86086/n2dj5f82
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Subject: Ecology and river restoration
Dams
Dam retirement
Place: United States

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