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Frankly, My Dear, We Don't Want These Dams Federal decision may be first step toward dam removal on the Klamath River		01 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Frankly, My Dear, We Don't Want These Dams Federal decision may be first step toward dam removal on the Klamath River Four hydroelectric dams along the Oregon-California border must ease fish passage to earn license renewal, says the Bush administration. The decision may spur the largest dam-removal project in history, as installation of fish ladders and other devices could cost far more than just remov ...
Topics: dams, energy, fishing, news, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Owening Up to Their Mistakes California's Owens River runs again after nearly a century		08 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Owening Up to Their Mistakes California's Owens River runs again after nearly a century The most ambitious river habitat restoration in the West kicked off this week, as Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa turned a knob on a dam and allowed water to flow through. The dam, built in 1913 to direct water into an L.A. aqueduct some 250 miles away, evaporated Owens Lake into salt flats and kick-start ...
Topics: California, news, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts (all these topics)

San Joaquin Phoenix Dead San Joaquin River will be revived		15 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
San Joaquin Phoenix Dead San Joaquin River will be revived More than 60 miles of California's dead, sandy San Joaquin River may yet run with water and salmon again, as enviros and farmers have settled an 18-year legal battle over the river's fate. Based on a new 20-year, $250-to-$800 million restoration plan, agricultural water diversion from the river will be reduced by an a ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, news, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts (all these topics)

Diamond's Err Forever Dioxin-laced Passaic River remains uncleaned by corporations that fouled it		08 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Diamond's Err Forever Dioxin-laced Passaic River remains uncleaned by corporations that fouled it For today's tale of corporate skullduggery and government negligence, we take you to the lovely state of New Jersey. For almost 20 years beginning in the early '50s, the Diamond Shamrock Chemicals Co. -- manufacturer of pesticides like DDT and Agent Orange -- dumped its dioxin-laden waste untreated into the Pas ...
Topics: New Jersey, news, rivers and watersheds, toxics (all these topics)

Going With the Flow Underwater turbines to be tested in New York river		22 May 2006	Daily Grist
Going With the Flow Underwater turbines to be tested in New York river Avoiding the bickering over wind power and biofuels, a Virginia-based company is seeking clean energy in the watery deep. Within a few weeks, Verdant Power will submerge turbines in New York's East River to draw energy from the tides. The first phase of the project will run for 18 months, with six turbines supplying energy to a ne ...
Topics: New York, news, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Not Wade Away U.S. streams in sad shape, says EPA analysis		08 May 2006	Daily Grist
Not Wade Away U.S. streams in sad shape, says EPA analysis It's Monday and most of the streams in the U.S. are in bad shape. Can we go back to bed? A U.S. EPA study finds that 42 percent of "wadeable" U.S. streams are in poor condition, 25 percent are fair, and only 28 percent are good (OK, math geeks, 5 percent were not analyzed because of sampling problems). Streams running between the Appa ...
Topics: news, rivers and watersheds, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

The Songhua Remains the Same Pollution from November spill in China still taints downstream waterways		01 May 2006	Daily Grist
The Songhua Remains the Same Pollution from November spill in China still taints downstream waterways Months after a factory explosion in China dumped benzene and other chemicals into the Songhua River, thawing ice is releasing a second wave of toxins into downstream waterways near Khabarovsk, Russia. More than half a million residents of the city have been advised not to drink their strongly chemical-s ...
Topics: China, news, rivers and watersheds, Russia, toxics (all these topics)

Do You Reely Want to Hurt Me? Low salmon numbers provoke protests, legislation, and a state of emergency		26 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Do You Reely Want to Hurt Me? Low salmon numbers provoke protests, legislation, and a state of emergency Next week is supposed to kick off salmon season in Oregon and California, but the Bush administration is expected to severely restrict or completely bar commercial salmon fishing due to a critically low salmon count in the Klamath River. About 100 angry fisherfolk protested in San Francisco on ...
Topics: California, fishing, news, Oregon, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

The Blew Danube Ukrainian attorney Olya Melen stands up for the Danube Delta	Michelle Nijhuis	25 Apr 2006	Main Dish
Olya Melen doesn't think small. In her first-ever court case, the young Ukrainian attorney challenged a massive canal project proposed for the Danube Delta, an internationally recognized wetland on the edge of the Black Sea. Melen, a lawyer for the public-interest group Environment-People-Law, argued that the canal would disrupt the area's rural communities and diverse wildlife, violating ...
Topics: environmental justice, politics, rivers and watersheds, Ukraine (all these topics)

Klamath Is Hard! Judge orders Bush admin to shift water to Klamath River salmon		28 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Klamath Is Hard! Judge orders Bush admin to shift water to Klamath River salmon Endangered Klamath River coho salmon -- what's left of them anyway -- scored a victory yesterday, as a federal judge ordered the Bureau of Reclamation to increase river flows in drought years and the National Marine Fisheries Service to develop a biological study that would lead ...
Topics: fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, rivers and watersheds, US Bureau of Reclamation (all these topics)

It's Hard Out Here for a Chinook Fishing ban considered for Klamath chinook along West Coast		06 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
It's Hard Out Here for a Chinook Fishing ban considered for Klamath chinook along West Coast With chinook salmon runs in the Klamath River plummeting, federal regulators are considering an unprecedented ocean-fishing ban on chinook along 700 miles of coast, from northern Oregon to just south of Carmel, Calif. A combination of factors on the Klamath River, including warm, low-flowing water and runoff from farming and ti ...
Topics: fishing, news, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

You Be Spillin' China faces two more toxic river crises		10 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
You Be Spillin' China faces two more toxic river crises Two new toxic spills have hit rivers in central China. Last week, cadmium seeped out of silt dredged in a cleanup effort on the industrialized Xiangjiang River, contaminating a 60-odd mile stretch of the waterway, and a broken pipe at a power plant dumped six tons of diesel fuel into a tributary of the Yellow River. Chinese officials are down ...
Topics: China, news, rivers and watersheds, toxics, Yellow River (all these topics)

Since U Been Overdrawn California delta tapped for too much water, in ecological crisis		05 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Since U Been Overdrawn California delta tapped for too much water, in ecological crisis The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in California is in ecological freefall. The 738,000-acre area supplies drinking water to millions and irrigation water for major agricultural producers. The delta smelt, a fish that's an indicator species for the region's overall health, is fast sliding toward extinction, than ...
Topics: California, marine life, news, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Fry Me a River China's benzene spill flows toward Siberian tiger territory in Russia		07 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Fry Me a River China's benzene spill flows toward Siberian tiger territory in Russia China's latest claim to international infamy -- a Songhua River-borne, 100-ton, 90-odd-mile-long benzene spill -- is expected to reach the Russian city of Khabarovsk, on the Amur River, next week. Conservationists in the region worry that the toxic slick will further imperil the extremely endangered Siberian tiger, whic ...
Topics: China, news, rivers and watersheds, Russia, toxics (all these topics)

Consciousness of Streams Sprawl is dirtying streams and posing threat to U.S. drinking water		28 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Consciousness of Streams Sprawl is dirtying streams and posing threat to U.S. drinking water Storm-water runoff threatens nearly every urban and suburban stream in the U.S., with serious implications for the country's drinking water. Used to be rain fell largely onto meadows, forests, and fields, where it was absorbed by plants or filtered into the underground water table, eventually percolating up to replenish ...
Topics: news, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Diary of a Mad Black River Millions of gallons of liquid cow manure flow into N.Y. river		16 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Diary of a Mad Black River Millions of gallons of liquid cow manure flow into N.Y. river At some point last week -- nobody's quite sure when -- one wall of an earthen reservoir on one of New York state's biggest dairy farms collapsed, releasing some 3 million gallons of liquid cow manure into the Black River. "That stinks," noted observant 15-year-old New Yorker Dustan Wisner. But the s ...
Topics: New York, news, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Hustle and Flow Montana and mining companies to fund massive river cleanup, restoration		03 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Hustle and Flow Montana and mining companies to fund massive river cleanup, restoration An historic financial settlement between the state of Montana and two mining firms has opened the door to a project of ecological scope virtually unprecedented in the U.S.: the removal of Montana's Milltown dam, located at the confluence of the Clark Fork and Blackfoot rivers, and the restoratio ...
Topics: dams, energy, mining and drilling, Montana, news, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runoff Cities start getting creative in cleaning up runoff		24 May 2005	Daily Grist
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runoff Cities start getting creative in cleaning up runoff Catalyzed by legal action from enviro groups, the U.S. EPA has started cracking down on an oft-overlooked cause of befouled waterways: polluted runoff. On its journey through urban and suburban streets, rainwater picks up and carries motor oil, antifreeze, pesticides, and other nasties, eventually dumping them in majo ...
Topics: news, rivers and watersheds, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Rivers Phoenix Many small waterways rising from ashes, but U.S. rivers still ailing		13 May 2005	Daily Grist
Rivers Phoenix Many small waterways rising from ashes, but U.S. rivers still ailing With press attention focused on major river cleanups -- when it's focused on rivers at all -- some 37,000 small river and stream restoration projects in the U.S. have gone largely unnoticed, despite their environmental importance. The local, state, and federal restorations, costing an estimated $14 billion or more since 1990, ra ...
Topics: news, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Drought, Drought, Let It All Out Drought is up, and climate change seems partly to blame, report says		25 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Drought, Drought, Let It All Out Drought is up, and climate change seems partly to blame, report says The proportion of the planet's land area suffering from drought has more than doubled since the 1970s, to about 30 percent, according to a recent study by the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Researchers attribute about half of that change to rising temperatures caused by global warming rather than to a lack of prec ...
Topics: climate, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Hull to Pay Delaware River oil spill elicits new criticism of single-hulled oil tankers		02 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Hull to Pay Delaware River oil spill elicits new criticism of single-hulled oil tankers Last weekend's oil spill on the Delaware River -- which U.S. Coast Guard officials now say may be considerably worse than previously estimated, involving up to 473,500 gallons of crude -- is drawing attention to single-hulled oil tankers. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) calls them "accident[s ...
Topics: energy, oil, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, United States (all these topics)

Her Name Is Rio The new anthology Rio Grande chronicles the life and troubled times of a fabled river	Dan Oko	30 Nov 2004	Arts and Minds
Rio Grande, edited by Jan Reid, U. of Texas Press, 337 pgs., 2004. The week before I sat down to read Rio Grande, a thick new anthology about the famed river edited by Texas scribe Jan Reid, a strange sight appeared on the actual Rio Grande outside the border town of Eagle Pass, Texas. A fiberglass statue of Jesus was discovered grounded on a sandbar in the river, drawing ...
Topics: Mexico, rivers and watersheds, West (all these topics)

Mister Sandman, Bring Me a Stream Glen Canyon Dam releases flood waters in massive experiment		23 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Mister Sandman, Bring Me a Stream Glen Canyon Dam releases flood waters in massive experiment An extraordinary experiment got underway this past weekend, as four large valves at the base of Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona were cranked open to release up to 41,000 cubic feet of water a second. Scientists hope that the water will push sand, silt, and sediment downstream to rebuild beaches and sandbars along ...
Topics: Arizona, dams, energy, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Utah, You've Been Norton'd! Interior Department protecting Utah rivers from wrong threat		01 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Utah, You've Been Norton'd! Interior Department protecting Utah rivers from wrong threat Last month, Interior Secretary Gale Norton splashily announced the Three Rivers Withdrawal: Nearly 200 miles of prized territory along Utah's Green, Colorado, and Dolores rivers would be withdrawn from consideration for new hard-rock mining claims. The proposal had been on her desk for 18 months, so some enviros suspe ...
Topics: mining and drilling, rivers and watersheds, Utah (all these topics)

Big Duddy Missouri River Management Plan to Be Election-Year Hot Potato		03 Mar 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri River, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

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