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Nile River Dam

Ethiopia Brings Nile River Dam Online as Sudan, Egypt Object

Shem Oirere
March 3, 2022
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Ethiopia has begun generating electricity at its new 5,000-MW roller-compacted concrete gravity-type dam on the Nile River. The first 375 MW went to the national grid on Feb. 20. 


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Dams

Collaboration Yields Funds for Dam Safety and Upgrades

Groups often at cross-purposes find common ground in funding hydropower projects
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Pam McFarland
January 24, 2022
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Hydropower sector participants usually at odds—industry firms, dam safety groups and environmental advocates—now are finding common ground in project funding and new legislation.

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Derby Dam
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Water/Environment, Award of Merit: Derby Dam Horizontal Fish Screen

David M. Brown
October 29, 2021
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The historic Derby Dam diverts water into the Truckee River that would otherwise flow into Pyramid Lake. However, that diversion led to the near extinction of the endangered native Lahontan cutthroat trout in the lake.


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Santa Anita Dam Spillway Modification
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Santa Anita Dam Spillway Modification

September 29, 2021
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To remediate seismic safety issues and enhance flood-handling capacity at the concrete thin-arch dam, the $32-million project called for cutting a notch in the existing structure, placing a new ogee-shaped spillway and installing reinforced armor at the dam’s base.


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Springfield Dam
Water & Dams

Project Team Modernizes Historic Springfield, Mass., Dam

Constrained space on the $3.6-million Watershops Pond Dam overhaul challenges GZA and its team
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Scott Van Voorhis
September 24, 2021
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Work recently started on a $3.6-million overhaul and modernization of the Watershops Pond Dam in Springfield, Mass.

 


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Court Won't Halt $464M Kiewit-Barnard Colorado Dam Expansion

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Mary B. Powers
April 1, 2021
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FERC order to proceed blocks ruling on enviros' challenge of 131-ft elevation of Gross Reservoir near Boulder to triple its capacity, U.S. judges say.
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FEMA Refuses to Fund Portion of Oroville Spillway's Rebuild

March 20, 2019
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While the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) approved $205 million in federal funds to reimburse California for costs to reconstruct the Oroville Dam spillways damaged by 2017 flooding, it declined to pay the remaining $306 million that the state’s Dept. of Water Resources (DWR) had requested.
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Gerry Galloway
ENR 2018 Top 25 Newsmakers

Gerry Galloway: 'Superstar' at 83 Continues His Water Management Crusade With an Assist on Big Urban Flooding Study

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Pam Radtke Russell
January 16, 2019
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When Texas A&M had the chance to snag a “superstar” to join an academic team for the first national study of urban flooding scope and consequences, it knew just who to ask: Gerry Galloway.


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Tanzania
International Projects

Tanzania Picks Arab Contractors for Stiegler Power Project

Hydro plant reservoir would inundate section of Selous Game Reserve
Shem Oirere
November 8, 2018
One Comment
The contractor will construct a 134-m-high RCC dam and four saddle dams, with a combined capacity to impound approximately 34 billion cubic meters of water.
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BC Hydro

Hydropower Boom in Canada Hits Roadblocks with Cost Overruns, Opposition

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Pam Radtke Russell
October 25, 2018
One Comment

Keeyask is one of three major hydropower projects under construction in Canada—a country that gets 59% of its electricity from hydropower.


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