dams

The study looked at chemical, physical and biological data collected over nearly a decade as the Lake Kathleen Dam near Pellston was removed from the Maple River.

Over time, people have caused extensive damage to rivers by scouring their banks with logs, channelizing them through towns and cutting them up with dams. In the last 50 years, scientists have discovered removing dams can vastly improve conditions in rivers. But not all dams can come down. Sometimes they are our greatest protection against invasive species.

Over time, people have caused extensive damage to rivers by scouring their banks with logs, channelizing them through towns and cutting them up with dams. In the last 50 years, scientists have discovered removing dams can vastly improve conditions in rivers. But not all dams can come down. Sometimes they are our greatest protection against invasive species.

The state Senate Appropriations committee heard testimony Wednesday on a bill that would spend 2-and-a-half-billion-dollars on water infrastructure.

A years-long effort to build an experimental fish ladder on the Boardman River in Traverse City is in jeopardy. That’s all because of a man who decided to…

Of the nearly 2,600 dams in Michigan, more than 90% are going to hit or exceed their design life in 2020, according to a 2014 report. Among those is the…

For eighty years, a hydro-electric dam sat in Brown Bridge Quiet area. It created a backwater pond on the bottomlands. In 2012, the dam was decommissioned…