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Dammed if We Do, Dammed if We Don't!
In this episode we cover....you guessed it, dams! Dams are incredible manmade features that can not only dominate the landscape but also dominate the river system and fundamentally change how the rivers operate.
We discuss everything from the amount of dams in the United States to major dam failures in the recent past, and highlight some of the basics of how dams fundamentally affect streams when they are installed.
Here are some highlights of the statistics we cover!
There are roughly 91,000 Dams in the US
They Impound over 600,000 miles of river or 17% of rivers
The average age is 59 years…
The skinny
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