Dam
September 29, 2009--Leaky dam causes flood worries in Seattle area (Washington Post
The Howard Hanson Dam began showing disturbing signs of vulnerability after a torrential rainstorm in January, and officials have been warning residents to buy flood insurance, stow valuables in safe places and be ready to flee.
September 27, 2009--Judge decides against Pine River District (Durango Herald)
A federal court judge says the Pine River Irrigation District has no
authority to build a dam and create a reservoir in the Weminuche
Wilderness north of Vallecito. In a Sept. 18 ruling, U.S. District
Court Judge John L. Kane dismissed a claim by the irrigation district
that in 1940 it acquired the right build a dam at Emerald Lake.
October 1, 2007--A downside to downing dams? (High Country News)
In the view of conservationists," author John McPhee once wrote, "there is something special about dams, something - as conservation problems go - that is disproportionately and metaphysically sinister." For many conservationists, there is also something special about tearing those dams down, something satisfyingly unambiguous about the very phrase "dam removal." If riv
