America's dams are currently averaging 64 years old, and most of us don't give them a second thought until something goes wrong. We drive past them, boat on their reservoirs, and live downstream from ...

With more than 550,000 dams in the United States, free-flowing rivers are an endangered species. We’ve dammed, diked, and diverted almost every major river in the country, straightening curves, ...

The landscape before and soon after the removal of Newport’s Sleeper Pond Dam in Oct. 2025. Photo courtesy of the Missisquoi River Basin Association There are at least 140 dams in the Winooski River ...