To generate power, Cape Horn Dam and Van Arsdale Reservoir were built on the Eel River to divert water into the tunnel.

The destruction of a large Ukrainian dam across the Dnipro River in 2023 did more than flood Ukrainian villages. It also triggered a “toxic time bomb” of environmental harm, according to a new  study.

The destruction of Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam in June 2023 exposed lake bed sediment containing more than 90,000 tons of toxic ...

The 2023 breach of the Kakhovka dam drained a huge reservoir and exposed a vast area of toxic sediment, creating a debate ...

Water is misused as a weapon when infrastructure and water resources are deliberately destroyed in armed conflicts. Water ...

They also include ecological groups eager to see the dams removed and an ecological ... opposition to diversion from the Eel River to the Russian River. “I think that this is a good deal ...

If the dams are breached, Russian River water users will need about $50 million to build new diversion facilities to replace Cape Horn Dam, which draws water from the Eel to spin electricity ...

The California Department of Water Resources says that this approach, known as the Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations, or ...

It further requires Russian River users pay $750,000 into a river ... enough to work through more than a century of conflict over dams and diversions in what will soon be the longest, free-flowing ...