By creating slower pools of water upstream, low-head dams allowed industrial, municipal and agricultural entities to easily divert water. But many of these structures have outlived their purpose.

A low-head dam is a human-made structure built across a river just below the water’s surface, the ruling states. Water flows over the edge, falling about five feet to the dam’s base.

Vicki Hodges and Sharon Kahn died in 2020 after tubing over a hard-to-see dam in Fayette County. Their family's lawsuit has been revived on appeal.

CLERMONT — A lawsuit over the drowning deaths of two West Union residents at low-head dam on the Turkey River Water Trail is back on track following a ruling by the Iowa Supreme Court. The ...

Following the removal of four dams from the Klamath River, which flows through California and Oregon, a group of young indigenous people are paddling from source to sea.

A group of young Indigenous kayakers is headed to the mouth of the Klamath River after portaging around two dams and paddling through four former dam sites.

Lane County officials urge water safety as summer temperatures rise, citing risks like log jams and low-head dams. Hazards such as strainers (water obstructions) and strong currents pose dangers ...

64-year-old Sharon Kahn and 44-year-old Vicki Hodges, both of West Union, died in June 2020 when their innertubes went over a low-head dam on the Turkey River in Clermont.

Photo provided An overhead view of the low-head dam in the East Fork White River which would be removed as part of the proposed Riverfront Project. Bids for east bank work to the ‘Our River ...

City officials opened bids for the east bank portion of the “Our River…Our Riverfront” project on Tuesday, which resulted in two responses, but details beyond that are sparse at least for now.