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Raising the dam would inundate habitat along the McCloud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

On Aug. 26, the alert mechanism failed again and the dam was dashed to pieces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

That happened back in 2023, after nine years of campaigning, and halted the construction of a hydropower dam that would have damaged the ecosystem.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

The Ecuadorian government launched legal proceedings against Sinohydro in 2021 due to cracks appearing in the dam and other technical failures.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

In the white water at the foot of the dam it was deep.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Scientists recently found that, since the dams came down, salmon have rapidly returned to spawn upstream, reoccupying 88% of their historical areas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The aqueduct seemed to make the city’s founding river not just obsolete but dangerous, so construction began on catch basins, dams and reservoirs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

As semi-aquatic mammals, beavers are known for building dams that create ponds and wetlands.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

More than 2,000 hydropower workers were scattered across dams, riverside camps, underground power houses and miles-long tunnels when the flood hit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Emasculated by dams and diversion canals, the lower Colorado burbles indolently from reservoir to reservoir through some of the hottest, starkest country on the continent.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

An overflowing dammed lake upstream of the Gyirong Port in Tibet forced a temporary suspension of rescue operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Some Alaskans are evacuating their homes as meltwater escapes a basin dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier - raising fears of record-breaking flooding in the US state's capital city.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025

Stained glass windows on the west side of the church, in the direct path of the storm, were shattered, allowing rain inside in addition to dammed stormwater forced into the building, Glenn said.

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024

Over the last 100 years, rivers across the Central Valley were dammed to provide irrigation for farms, blocking salmon from their natural habitats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

The Musengezi used to flow into the Zambezi River until the Portuguese dammed it up.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

That mass of rock and ice plunged about 800 metres onto a debris-covered glacier, before surging downhill, briefly damming the Lhende River.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

The creation of the reservoir, which involved damming the Gwash valley near Empingham, was finished in 1976 and flooding took a further three years, Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust said.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Andrew Law, a sociologist at Newcastle University in the U.K., has used lidar mapping to digitally preserve structures along China’s Yangtze River that were threatened or wiped out by extensive damming.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2025

When beavers move into a stream or creek and begin building their damming complexes, the ponds and wetlands they create are an antidote to all these problems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025

They had more or less run amuck and were damming up rivers and flooding highways, filling pastures, even beginning to invade the cities.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen