Workers on Monday put the final touches on two summer dams along the lower Russian River, even as nearby business owners wait to see how much water will flow over the temporary barriers starting ...

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Additional water is being released from the dams on the Elwha River to augment a low stream flow and protect Chinook salmon redds, or egg nests, below the lower dam. The ...

When a stream is placid, these dams are a great place to fish, swim. But at least 24 people drowned last year in swirling waters when stream flow is high.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Nearly 150 people died in the United States from 2018 to 2021 due to incidents caused by low-head dams, submerged dams that are sometimes referred to as “drowning ...

The Army Corps of Engineers Tulsa District has reduced the Keystone Dam water flow to 80,000 cubic feet per second from its previous 100,000. Experts say that should lower the Arkansas River a ...

But five low-head dams remain in Columbus, and statewide, there are about 1,000. Removing them all would be a boon to the environment and to users of rivers, but removal is expensive and sometimes ...

Removing low-head dams . From Colorado to Indiana to Maine, municipal authorities, environmentalists, and engineers are embarking on projects to map and remove low-head dams.Of the 26 states that ...

When conditions are right, low-head dams make picturesque, ... During times of high flow, they become quite deadly." Call IndyStar reporter Vic Ryckaert at (317) 444-2701.

Someday, the low-level dam upriver of Hamilton's downtown may be removed, ... The river carries a lot of gravel every day, and the gravel deposits change depending on the river’s flow.

Extremely low water levels in the South Saskatchewan River have left one of Saskatoon's biggest tourist attractions high and ...

A danger hiding in plain sight. Also known as “run-of-river” dams, roll-dams or weirs, low-head dams are structures built bank-to-bank across rivers and streams to control the flow of water.