Search Results: Proposed Dam
Remnants from early and aborted construction attempts can be seen at the site of the proposed $1 billion Auburn Dam on the American River. This dam has been proposed in several forms since the 1950s, each time the proposed project failed to be executed. Construction...
This privately owned dam supplied power primarily to the Daishowa pulp and paper mill in Port Angeles. The dam, completed in 1913, blocks passage for an estimated 390,000 salmon and steelhead, and alters the ecology of a river and delta that drains 19% of Olympic...
One of the largest mine tailings piles in the world: 7.4 billion cubic feet, the New Cornelia Tailings is often cited as the largest dam structure in the country, by volume (the tailings, waste material from the mining process, were heaped into a pile that created a...