Tag: dams
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Biden-Harris Administration Delivers $520 Million from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to Revitalize Aging Water Infrastructure and Strengthen Drought Resilience
Funding will be provided to 57 projects across six regions to increase drought resilience and improve water delivery systems, advance Biden-Harris administrations’ National Climate Resilience Framework Acting Deputy Secretary of the Interior Laura Daniel-Davis today announced more than $520 million from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to revitalize aging water delivery systems across the West. The funding will…
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A Republican’s quixotic quest against dam removal
Photo: Demolition of the Klamath River’s Copco No. 2 dam began last year. | Shane Anderson/Swiftwater Films/Klamath River Renewal LET IT FLOW: Water is flowing unimpeded down the Klamath River to the Pacific Ocean for the first time in more than a century — and Rep. Doug LaMalfa is depressed. “It’s our worst defeat since I’ve been a…
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Saving salmon: Gov. Newsom unveils blueprint for ending decades-long decline
Photo by Steve Martarano By Rachel Becker, Cal Matters With salmon populations throughout California declining for decades and facing the threat of extinction, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday unveiled a state strategy aimed at protecting and restoring the iconic species “amidst hotter and drier weather exacerbated by climate change.” The blueprint calls for tearing down dams and improving…
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CDFW Biologist Honored Following Historic Salmon Reintroduction Project
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has recognized a CDFW senior environmental scientist for his role in the historic effort to return endangered winter-run Chinook salmon to the McCloud River for the first time since construction of the Shasta Dam in the 1940s. Matt Johnson, CDFW’s fisheries supervisor for the winter-run Chinook salmon reintroduction…
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Risky reservoirs: States where aging dams pose the greatest threat
Record rainfall pelted parts of Iowa for 12 hours straight in July 2010, sending 10 inches of rainwater draining toward Lake Delhi, Iowa, a popular recreation destination for decades since its construction in the 1920s. Holding back 9 miles of lake water with more precipitation flowing in by the minute was the 80-year-old Lake Delhi…
