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The Tennessee Valley Dams

The Best Dam Place in the Country

Valley of Opportunity!

GRanD (Global Reservoir and Dam database) by the Global Water System Project

via Science Daily

climateadaptation:

Intense graphic shows dams built in the US since 1800, which really isn’t that long ago. Here in Massachusetts, the state is trying to dismantle old, unused dams to increase biodiversity and bring fish back to tributaries. For more on human impacts on the environment, click here.

James Syvitski of the University of Colorado used this 200-year compilation of dams built in the USA in his talk on the age of the human-shaped Earth at the Geological Society of London, May 11, 2011.

wild Ibex goats on the face of the Cingino Dam in Antrona Valley, Italy

via International Rivers

Bell-Mouth Spillways

Computer Models Improve Salmon Passage at Hydropower Dams : TreeHugger