EWRI
ASCE
Volume 5, Number 3 • Winter 2003/2004

Dam Removal: Lessons Learned – Coming to a Region Near You

The Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) will host a second series of workshops — Dam Removal: Lessons Learned. These two-day events will focus on past and recent dam removal projects and what can be learned from them.

This series of workshops follows the well received August 2003 EWRI workshop held at Johns Hopkins University and is the result of recommendations made by both the Aspen Institute and the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment in their respective studies, Dam Removal – A New Option for a New Century, and DAM REMOVAL — Science and Decision Making. Both reports noted that holding a workshop would improve communication across disciplinary boundaries by discussing what has been learned from recent dam removal projects and starting to identify what needs still exist.

The workshops will feature six sessions including: Permitting; Economic Impacts; Biological Impacts; Social/Cultural Impacts; Aesthetics/Recreation; and Geomorphologic/Hydrologic Impacts. Each session will include a presentation by two experts in dam removal followed by a roundtable discussion. The workshop will close with a needs assessment for dam removal.

Mark your calendar and plan to register for a workshop in your area!

  • July 12-13, 2004 - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan
  • August 16-17, 2004 - University of CA, Berkeley, California
  • August 30-31, 2004 - Ft. Collins Marriott, Fort Collins, Colorado
  • November 8-9, 2004 - Heathman Lodge, Vancouver, Washington
  • February 10-11, 2005 - University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee


    • Workshop details will soon be available on the EWRI website at www.ewrinstitute.org/damremoval04/.



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