For Immediate Release April 20, 2017 Media Contact: Gene Guilford, gene@ussdams.org / 860-989-0756   United States Society on Dams Joins Infrastructure Week 2017 Infrastructure Week – May 15-19, 2017 – is a week-long series of events raising awareness about why it is #TimeToBuild better infrastructure for our country [Denver, CO., April 20, 2017] – Today, the […]

In recent remarks to an industry roundtable, President Donald Trump said, “You know, hydropower is a great, great form of power. But we don’t even talk about it anymore because the permits are virtually impossible. [Hydropower] is one of the best things you can do, but we don’t even talk about it anymore.” For those […]

Montpelier, VT, April 4, 2017—The Nature Conservancy has published the results of its Dam Screening Tool for the Lake Champlain Basin. The Dam Screening Tool assessed four-hundred dams and categorized them into five tiers based on the significance of their ecological impacts on Vermont’s waterways, such as blocked fish passage and fragmentation of river ecosystems. […]

BOSTON, April 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Rye Development announced today the receipt of a hydropower license from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the Allegheny 2 Hydroelectric Project, a 17-Megawatt facility, which will be located on the Allegheny No. 2 Lock and Dam owned by the US Army Corps of Engineers. Rye Development and […]

Can you imagine if we were still walking around at night using candles to light our way, or heating our homes only by fire? Sure, it’s romantic and nostalgic to do that once in a while, but at the end of the day, society would look extremely different without the use of electricity. advertisement – […]

HIDE-A-WAY HILLS, PA – For the first time since 2014, the Hide-A-Way Hills community will have full access to the private community’s largest lake after completing dam construction late last year. Hide-A-Way Hills Club residents privately funded a $3 million dam construction project to restore the 110-acre Lake of Four Seasons after problems were discovered […]

MINERAL RIDGE, Ohio – Though much remains unknown as to the kind of reconstruction program that will be done to modernize the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District’s Meander Reservoir dam, MVSD President Matt Blair says the safety of downstream residents will continue to be an important consideration. Blair says the 86-year-old dam needs to have the […]

The slogan SAVE OUR DAMS is painted in large white letters on a red barn along Hwy 195 north of Pullman. It’s been a rallying cry for southeast Washington for almost two decades.  Unless you’re a fisherman or a farmer, you may have no idea what the barn is trying to tell Cougar football fans. […]

PRINEVILLE, Ore. – The federal Bureau of Reclamation will begin drilling in early April to collect soil samples at Ochoco Dam east of Prineville. Crews will be working near the toe of the dam’s downstream face, collecting soil samples from the embankment and foundation at six drill sites to refine existing studies of the dam’s […]

Maintaining public safety is paramount at NID, CA. This year’s powerful winter storms with record precipitation, intense high flows, and flooding have triggered heightened awareness across California. NID is sensitive to community concerns over potential infrastructure damage due the intensity of this season’s storms in the Sierras. Current minimal infrastructure damage poses no risk to […]