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Title: Does Small Dam Removal Affect Local Property Values? An Empirical Analysis
Alternative Title: Staff Paper Series (Agricultural & Applied Economics)
Creator: Bill Provencher
Helen Sarakinos
Tanya Meyer
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics
Date Created and/or Issued: 7/1/06
Publication Information: University of Wisconsin-Madison
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: This paper uses hedonic analysis to examine the impact of small dam removal on property values in South-central Wiscosin. Data on residential property sales were obtained for three categories of sites: those where a dam is intact, those where a dam was recently removed, and those where the stream has been free-flowing for at least 20 years. The primary conclusions that emerge from the data are that residential property located in the vicinity of a free-flowing stream is more valuable than identical property in the vicinity of a small impoundment, and that shoreline frontage along small impoundments confers no increase in residential property value compared to frontage along free-flowing streams.
Type: text
Form/Genre: digital copy
Identifier: ark:/86086/n2tm79rv
166
Language: English
eng
Subject: Economics
Dams
Dam retirement
Place: WI
USA

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