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Title: Damn Sand Rights: Removing Rindge and Matilija Dams
Creator: Mark H. Capelli
Date Created and/or Issued: 1999 September 24
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: Two dams built in the 1920's and 1940's within southern California coastal drainages have reached the end of their useful lives, and their decommissioning and removal is being actively considered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Both projects have the potential to replenish downcoast eroded beaches through the release of stored sediments and the re-establishment of natural sediment transport regimes. The removal of these dams are complicated by the disposition of stored sediments, which if released above background levels, could adversely affect downstream properties on adjacent flood plains, as well as sensitive species which occupy coastal wetlands at the mouth of both stream systems. Re-establishment of natural sediment transport is receiving increasingly serious consideration in comprehensive coastal shoreline management programs, and offers an alternative to shoreline armoring and artificial beach nourishment programs.
Scope/Content: Author affiliation: California Shore and Beach & Coastal Zone Foundation
Scope/Content: Dam type: concrete
Type: text
Identifier: ark:/86086/n2gb23hg
917
Subject: Ecology and river restoration
Sediment and channel dynamics
Dams
Dam retirement
Place: Malibu Creek, CA
Matilija Creek, CA
Matilija Dam
Rindge Dam

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