just amazing the transformation of the rivers and how ithey have been opened up for recreation etc...and wildlife benefits too..500 down ..a few hundred more to go
If it is not being used for production, why not install whatever size hydro-electric generator it would support and provide renewable energy for your community?
I never knew about the dam that used to be where Riverside Park is in West Bend! I really only started going to the park in 2006 when I went to college there. Boy I tell ya, I'm glad it's gone because I have a lot of fun at that park!! But there is still a dam just upstream of hwy 33.
Silt build up created by dams is some of the best soil to amend for gardens and farming, so long as there are no toxins in it. Test for those, and if clean, sell what you do not use to restore the banks of the rivers, since it is a great soil amendment full of nutrients, to local gardeners and or to local farmers. Sell it for cost of its removal. This will cut the cost of the removal of it to close to $0.00 spent on this aspect of the dam removal.
The irony is that the people who decided build these villages and towns originally did so because their was a river there not because there was a dam there.
I am going to build a dam, but there aren't really any fish in the creek, and the dam will increase room for fish, provide flood control on the Mississippi River, create power for the house, and give the people of Quincy room to swim in.
Many, if not most, of these small dams no longer serve the purpose for which they were built. Additionally, even if they still produce something, like electricity, the repair and upkeep costs are greater than the product produced. Those have little use and should be removed.
Of course, Dams are all bad. Dam them! Dam! What I don't hear is anyone talking about the lake that was destroyed when they destroyed the dam. Ask anyone if they would rather live on a lake or a stream and see what you get.
An artificial unnecessary lake of unnatural depth and filled with silt and sediments. I would rather live on a hill above a stream/river than on any shoreline. No floods that way. The only reason we prefer to live near water is because of easy access to both food and water, and travel. We o longer have to rely upon water near us to obtain all those things. We have wells and storage tanks, grocery stores and refrigerators, cars and public transportation, along with cleared roads to travel.
@@totagteamDams are for water reservoirs for people's drinking water, power generation, running of water powered mills for timber and weaving and milling grains, as well as for water diversion for agricultural irrigation. The US government and the power companies sold us that lie about flood control. More flood are caused by bad dams that fail, though a well kept dam can be beneficial in some cases, depending on location and stability of the ground on which they are built. Seismic activity can make or break a dam's life and usefulness quickly. Addd to th natural causes of quakes, fracking induced quakes in places that have old dams and dams with little to no up keep in places not historically having seismic activity and you have another recipe for dam failure.
Sure what's next? Why not remove the Hoover dam? The Columbia River dams? Let's remove all the dams providing us with hydroelectric power and reservoirs for our drinking water. We don't need any of those things.
+Matt Albrecht Unless that dam had burst, and the amount of water it contained had devastated much more of the area than by only rainfall. And giving the river the room it needs, can help to mitigate a flood better than a dam reservoir which is already full...
barvdw that is the problem. mismanagement of the damn level. at every one of them, you see the reservoir is full for 'boating, recreation" and so on, so when the snow melts or the heavy rains come - there is no place for the water to go except over the spillway and flooding the land below. if the reservoir was kept at, say, 75-80% of capacity, there would be room for the water when it comes. they should factor that in when building these things. the first thing a dam is used for today (primarily anyhow) is flood control and power generation
+Matt Albrecht Matt most dams are very well managed well. A lot of dams are kept up for water supplies, power and recreation. Very good management saved several cities along the Ohio river a few years ago. They basically shut every river off for a week and saved a 1,000 year flood from happening.
