The complex decisionmaking process for removing dams

Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 20-31

  Baish, Sarah K ^a   David, Sheila D ^a   Graf, William L ^b  

^a H John Heinz III Center for Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LEGAL ASPECT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING; REVIEW; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SAFETY;

EID: 0036587498     PISSN: 00139157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00139150209605779     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. W. L. Graf, Landscapes, Commodities, and Ecosystems: The Relationship between Policy and Science for American Rivers in Sustaining Our Water Resources (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1993).
2. U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: The National Data Book (Washington, D.C., U.S. Department of Commerce, 1999).
3. American Rivers, Friends of the Earth, and Trout Unlimited, Dam Removal Success Stories: Restoring Rivers through Selective Removal of Dams That Don't Make Sense (Washington, D.C.: American Rivers, Inc., 1999).
4. The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, Dam Removal: Science and Decision Making (Washington, D.C., forthcoming). See http://www.heinzctr.org.
5. Sources of information on the mechanics of dam removal include a periodic short course on the subject by the Department of Engineering Professional Development at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. This two-day course, titled "Succeeding with a Dam Decommissioning Project," is offered at least once per year. It includes lectures and discussions on the engineering, social, economic, and environmental aspects of dam removal, and it is taught by professionals with experience in planning and engineering aspects of dam removal. A good source of information on federal, state, local, and private funding mechanisms that can be used to finance dam removal and associated river restoration is American Rivers, Paying for Dam Removal: A Guide to Selected Funding Sources (Washington, D.C.: American Rivers, Inc., 2000).
6. For more information on adaptive management, see J. W. Jacobs and J. L. Wescoat Jr., "Managing River Resources: Lessons from Glen Canyon Dam," Environment, March 2002, 8-19.
7. D. A. Dixon, Scoping Study on Sedimentation Issues at Hydroelectric Projects, Final Report TR-114008 (Palo Alto, Calif.: Electric Power Research Institute, 2000).
8. S. M. Born et al., "Socioeconomic and Institutional Dimensions of Dam Removals-The Wisconsin Experience," Environmental Management 22, no. 3 (1998): 359-70.
9. M. J. Catalano, M. A. Bozek, and T. D. Pellett, "Fish Habitat Relations and Initial Response of the Baraboo River Fish Community to Dam Removal" (paper presented at the National American Benthological Society meeting, LaCrosse, Wis., July 2001). In press.
10. Grants Pass Irrigation District, press release (Grants Pass, Ore., 24 July 2001), accessed via http://www.gpid.eom/Consent% 20Deeree%20-%20Final.htm on 30 November 2001.
11. B. Olson, "Oregon River Dam Giving Way to Salmon," accessed via the Environmental News Network web site at http://www.enn.com/news/wirestories/2001/10/1017200/reu_45294.asp on 30 November 2001.
12. Grants Pass Irrigation District, note 10 above.
13. The act was sponsored by both Senator Wyden and Senator Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) (S. 3227, 106th Cong., 2nd sess., Congressional Record 146 (23 October 2000): S10,892).
14. Grants Pass Irrigation District, note 10 above.
15. For more information about benefit-cost analysis, see S. Farrow and M. Toman, "Using Benefit-Cost Analysis to Improve Environmental Regulations," Environment, March 1999, 11-15, 33-38.
16. C. L. Harper, Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues (London: Prentice-Hall, 2001).
17. Ibid., as above.
18. Born et al., note 8 above.
19. C. Waldman, Atlas of the North American Indian (New York: Facts on File Publications, 1985).
20. For more information about Glen Canyon Dam, see Jacobs and Wescoat, note 6 above.
21. National Research Council, New Strategies for America's Watersheds (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1999).