The fight over Hager Pond Dam in Marlborough is a window into the hundreds of “high hazard” dams in Massachusetts that no longer serve any purpose.

Nearly 100 dams in NY in bad condition, would cause harm if compromised. Where are they? The Lake Welch Dam in Harriman State Park, pictured here, is one of the state's 93 high hazard dams in poor ...

What’s more important: Tearing down dams that have decimated rivers and driven salmon and other fish toward extinction? Or letting those dams stay up, so they can keep producing carbon-free ...

Many of the most dangerous dams in Richland and Lexington counties are still in bad shape a decade after the deadly flood that killed nine people in Columbia. Nearly a third of Richland and Lexington ...

My house is on the Manhan River in Easthampton close to the dam being considered for removal. I’ve lived here over 50 years. Removal of the dam is a bad idea for several reasons. In the last 25 years ...

The latest forecast has arrived for the West’s largest reservoir — and, stop me if you’ve heard this one, it’s not great. Federal scientists are projecting that Lake Mead — created by Hoover Dam, ...

Shasta Dam stands 602 feet tall. Since its completion in 1945, the dam has blocked Chinook salmon from returning upstream to the cold spring-fed streams near Mount Shasta where they once spawned.

For better or worse, there are more than 80,000 dams on rivers in the United States. Some serve essential purposes—irrigation, flood control, hydropower generation — but many are no longer in use, ...