Dam Links #3

Dam Links #3

Northwest Rivers—The Dam Controversy

Hydroelectricity

Environmental Literacy Council: Hydroelectric Power

http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/59.html

FWEE: Walk Through a Hydroelectric Project

http://www.fwee.org/walk.html

Hydroelectric Power: How does it work?

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/hyhowworks.html

How Hydroplants Work

http://www.howstuffworks.com/hydropower-plant.htm

Dam Sites (Click around on links at these sites)

Good pictures of all dams

http://www.cqs.washington.edu/crisp/hydro/photos.html

Grand Coulee Dam

http://www.grandcouleedam.com/gcda/GCD/grandcouleedam/grandcouleedam.htm

http://users.owt.com/chubbard/gcdam/index.html

Ice Harbor Dam

http://shazam.cqs.washington.edu/crisp/hydro/hydroihr.html

http://www.nww.usace.army.mil/dpn/dpn_project.asp?project_id=59

http://www.nww.usace.army.mil/html/pub/pi/navigation/icehar.htm

Bonneville Dam homepage
http://www.cqs.washington.edu/crisp/hydro/bon.html

http://phi.kenyon.edu/projects/dams/right.html

https://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/OP/B/welcome.htm

Little Goose Dam

http://www.nww.usace.army.mil/dpn/dpn_project.asp?project_id=81

http://www.cbr.washington.edu/crisp/hydro/hydrolgs.html

Lower Granite Dam
http://www.nww.usace.army.mil/html/pub/civilworks/cwafy92/para14.htm

http://www.nww.usace.army.mil/html/pub/pi/navigation/lwrgran.htm

Mc Nary Dam
http://www.nww.usace.army.mil/dpn/dpn_project.asp?project_id=107

http://www.cqs.washington.edu/crisp/hydro/mcn.html

http://www.cbr.washington.edu/crisp/hydro/hydromcn.html

Chief Joseph Dam

http://www.nws.usace.army.mil/opdiv/cj/chiefjo.htm

http://www.cbr.washington.edu/crisp/hydro/hydrochjp.html

Relicensing Dams

American Rivers: Overview of relicensing and FERC

(aimed at advocates of breaching dams)

http://www.amrivers.org/hydropowertoolkit/default.htm

Columbia Basin

http://www.amrivers.org/snakeriver/default.htm

http://www.amrivers.org/columbiariver/columbialinks.htm

Lower Snake

http://www.amrivers.org/snakeriver/default.htm

http://www.amrivers.org/mostendangered/snake2000.htm

Cool map showing all FERC licenses expiring in Pacific NW 1993-2010 http://www.amrivers.org/hydropowertoolkit/fercmappnw.htm

Removing Dams and Restoring Rivers—Pro and Con

Seattle Times series about affects of removing dams

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/dams16.shtml

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/cost16.shtml

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/fish161.shtml

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/041699/dam16.gif

63 Dams in 16 States to be removed in 2002

(Press release about campaigns across country)

http://www.amrivers.org/pressrelease/damremoval071802.htm

Atlantic Magazine: The Trouble with Dams, 1995

(Long but interesting story using the Lower Granite as example)

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/environ/dams.htm

Salmon Conflict Issues

(Viewpoints on dam breaching from government, industry and advocacy groups)

http://www.cyberlearn.com/remove.htm

Columbia & Snake Rivers Campaign: Returning Salmon by Restoring Rivers

(Click around on this site—lotof links)

http://www.columbia-snake.org/

Speech by Bruce Babbit, Secretary of Interior under Clinton

(This may notbe the view of current administration)

http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/salton/DamsAreNotForever.html

Taxpayers for Common Sense: Lower Snake Campaign

(Another group advocating for dam breaching)

http://www.taxpayer.net/snake/

Save Our Dams (against breaching)

(Also see the “Fish Friendly Dams” section of this site)

http://www.saveourdams.com/

Great Salmon Hoax (Site made by someone who disputes current salmon policy)

http://www.buchal.com/hoax.html

Dams and Fish

A River Dammed (Overview of fishing and the river. Click around.)

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0104/feature1/

Columbia River: Salmon Recovery Plan (Fish recovery issues. Click around.)

http://www.salmonrecovery.gov/index.shtml

Columbia Basin: Dams and Salmon (Salmon info from Army Corps of Engineers. Good pictures on fish passage)

http://www.nwd.usace.army.mil/ps/colrvbsn.htm

Evaluating Technologies for Improved Fish Passage (from Army Corps of Engineers)

https://www.nwd.usace.army.mil/ps/notes/jan98.pdf

Columbia and Snake Fish Passage Center (Information on fish passing through dams)

http://www.fpc.org/

http://www.fpc.org/fishway/map.html

McNary, Ice Harbor and Lower Granite: Juvenile Fish Transportation

http://www.nwd.usace.army.mil/ps/juvetran.htm

Salmon Conflict Issues: Goals of Salmon Restoration

(Viewpoints on salmon recovery from government, industry and advocacy groups)

http://www.cyberlearn.com/goals.htm

Will Salmon Disappear from Rivers Explored by Lewis and Clark? http://www.sierraclub.org/lewisandclark/alerts/salmon.asp

Sierra Club: Salmon and Dams

(Pro breach from a respected environmental organization. Lots of links to click.)

(See Salmon Report Card)

http://www.sierraclub.org/wildlands/species/salmon/index.asp

Cheap Energy vs. the Environment: A Case Study of Priorities on the Salmon Issue

(The writer of this site thinks dams are not the cause of salmon decline)

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/2001/ph162/l13.html

Environmental News Network: Dams and Salmon, Parts 1 and 2

http://www.enn.com/features/1999/12/120699/dams1_7161.asp

http://www.enn.com/features/1999/12/120799/dams2_7220.asp

Salmon, Energy and Potatoes

(Balancing energy, fish and water for farming)

http://www.enn.com/news/enn-stories/2001/03/03272001/potatosalmon_42671.asp

Dams of the Columbia Basin & Their Effects on the Native Fishery

(Click around—there are some cool old pictures.)

http://www.ccrh.org/comm/river/dams.htm

Columbia Basin: Fishing and Treaties

(From the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission)

http://www.critfc.org/text/treaties.html

http://www.critfc.org/text/timeline.html

http://www.critfc.org/text/myths.html