Heavy machinery removing the first scoop of dirt from Iron Gate dam on May 1, 2024. Juliet Grable / JPR Once FERC determines there’s no risk of high water that could compromise the earthen ...

The Iron Gate Dam was the last of the dams built to provide electricity to Northern California in the early 20th century. The reservoir behind the 173-foot-high dam, which went into service in ...

Water is released from the base of Iron Gate Dam on Thursday near Hornbrook, California, to drain the reservoir behind it. The dam is one of four being dismantled in order to improve Klamath River ...

Last year, the final of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River were removed in the largest project of its kind in US ...

Construction crews removed the top of the cofferdam that was left of Iron Gate Dam allowing the Klamath River to run in its original path for the first time in nearly a century near Hornbrook ...

The removal of the four hydroelectric dams — Iron Gate Dam, Copco Dams 1 and 2, and JC Boyle Dam — allows the region’s iconic salmon population to swim freely along the Klamath River and its ...

HORNBROOK, Calif. — Excavators clawed at the remnants of Iron Gate Dam, clattering loudly as they unloaded tons of earth and rock into dump trucks. Nine miles upriver, machinery tore into the ...

Researchers determined that Chinook salmon began migrating Oct. 3 into previously inaccessible habitat above the site of the former Iron Gate dam, one of four towering dams demolished as part of a ...

Michael Belchik, senior water policy analyst for the Yurok Tribe, said he is hopeful they’ll get past the Iron Gate dam soon. “I think we’re going to have some early successes,” he said.

Construction crews removed the top of the cofferdam that was left of Iron Gate Dam allowing the Klamath River to run in its original path for the first time in nearly a century near Hornbrook ...