Boom: Removing 81 Dams Is Transforming This California Watershed – EcoWatch

What about the Scott Dam that is built on a earthquake fault?In recent years it became clear that some of the dams posed safety hazards and impeded fish migration. As part of a federal recovery effort to recover populations of endangered southern steelhead, a plan was developed to remove the 81 dams in the San Juan watershed on Upper San Juan Creek, Trabuco Creek, Holy Jim and Silverado Creek.

Boom: Removing 81 Dams Is Transforming This California Watershed – EcoWatch

Removing one gigantic dam can have a massive effect on restoring a river ecosystem.

But bringing down more than 80 smaller dams? That can also cause a transformation.