For more than 80 years, the dam spanning the Rapidan River at Rapidan Mill has blocked fish from migrating upstream. The Rapidan Fish Passage Project is a study that could yield dam modifications ...

The question of dam removal is immensely complicated and part of a national movement. Whether Mason Mill dam will become part of that national discussion remains an open issue.

But the herring can go no farther than the falls, the dividing line between the fresh waters of the Blackstone River above and the brackish, tidal waters of the Seekonk River below. The path upriver ...

When Slater Mill opened in 1793, it signaled the eventual demise of river herring and other migratory fish in the Blackstone River. That might change.

In 2021, China completed one of the most ambitious and impressive infrastructure projects in the world, the Baihetan Dam, which now stands as the largest hydroelectric power station globally ...

For nearly two centuries American shad have had their migration up the Rivanna River blocked by the historic Woolen Mills dam. But this week that impediment will be removed, enabling ...

Lisbon dam removals already paying off, officials say The removal of dams along the Sabattus River in Lisbon is opening natural fish-breeding habitats, cleaning up pollution and could lower flood ...