The South Jetty functions alongside two smaller stone barriers in Washington. Together, they allow commercial ships to cross ...

After months of stalemate, glimmers of hope have emerged for consensus on a new plan to manage the shrinking Colorado River. Negotiators from the seven river basin states said in a series of meetings ...

The Bureau of Indian Affairs and Yakama Nation are mulling over two designs which aim to reduce fish mortality at the site ...

An old picture of the original Columbia Dam. It was later demolished in the late 1990s when TVA abandoned the project. A dam, in some form, has been on the Duck River since the 1920s.

While the largest dam removal project in U.S. history was taking off on the Klamath River last year, members of the Yurok Tribe got to work hand-sowing millions of native wildflower seeds and ...

The Brief The City of Anoka is seeking up to $51 million in state funding for a large-scale project to revitalize the Rum River Dam. Among the upgrades are automated crest gates, an updated ...

Three years later, construction is beginning on a new deployable floodgate, the latest step to protect Stanwood residents from water danger all around them. The new floodgate will be located near ...

City Light, the public utility department of the City of Seattle, is going through a complicated, federal relicensing of the Skagit River Hydroelectric Project, a series of three dams on the upper ...

Contractors in late September drove huge steel sheet piles into the riverbed, which will allow them to control water while they remove the dam. They'll use the pilings to dry sections of the river ...

The answers are important not only for the Klamath but also for dams across the world that have outlived their usefulness. Less than 100 miles south of Klamath, for instance, is the Eel River, where a ...

The Pearl River Map Turtle was discovered by researchers at the University of Southern Mississippi in 2010 and was officially inducted into the “endangered species” category by the U.S. Fish ...

Larger dam removals are even more difficult. For example, breaching the four Lower Snake River dams in the Columbia Basin is off the table as Native nations, states and the federal government work to ...