With an influx of federal funding, engineers will begin studying and preparing for the removal of the Daniels Dam in Howard County — one of the last remaining blockages on the Patapsco River.

This year, researchers captured, counted and released a record number of American eels using an eel ladder at the dam on the Patapsco River. Experts say it’s likely because of the demolition of ...

If the Daniels barrier is taken down, the only blockage remaining on the Patapsco system would be Liberty Dam on the river’s North Branch. That dam is the linchpin in a 9,000-acre reservoir that the ...

BALTIMORE -- With the help of nearly $2 million in federal funds, a nonprofit is going to start looking at what the Patapsco River could look like without Daniels Dam. American Rivers, based in ...

For more than a century, a former hydroelectric station straddling Baltimore and Howard counties has blocked wildlife habitat and created unsafe swimming conditions on the Patapsco River.

The Patapsco River has been flowing over Daniels Dam since the 1800s, but if American Rivers has its way, the dam will be history. It would be the fourth dam the group has removed from the river.

They’re the advance guard for a task force charged with removing a dormant hydroelectric dam on the Patapsco River and reopening a big stretch of the river to spawning runs of migratory fish. If the ...

The only other dam remaining on the main stem of the Patapsco River is the Liberty Dam, which sits at the base of the Liberty Reservoir, a key source of drinking water for the region. So the ...

Jul. 17—With an influx of federal funding, engineers will begin studying and preparing for the removal of the Daniels Dam in Howard County — one of the last remaining blockages on the Patapsco River.