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One morning last month, Paxon, now a 79-year-old county commissioner, pointed to where the diminished reservoir lapped at the base of the 301-foot dam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

In 2024, crews finished demolishing four dams on the Klamath River, completing the largest dam removal effort in U.S. history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

That happened back in 2023, after nine years of campaigning, and halted the construction of a hydropower dam that would have damaged the ecosystem.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Nepali police urged all rescuers to "immediately move to a safe location", saying they had received information that "a water dam has burst again on the Tibetan side".

From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026

The dam stopped up Haiti’s largest river, the Artibonite, and flooded some of the most fertile farmland in the central plateau.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Hydroelectric dams have proliferated across Southeast Asia in recent years, but production drops off in the dry season and critics lament the ecological impacts.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

Scientists recently found that, since the dams came down, salmon have rapidly returned to spawn upstream, reoccupying 88% of their historical areas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

More than 2,000 hydropower workers were scattered across dams, riverside camps, underground power houses and miles-long tunnels when the flood hit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

As semi-aquatic mammals, beavers are known for building dams that create ponds and wetlands.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Usually, the company bulldozed the slack dams open, but during a strike that wasn’t going to happen.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

An overflowing dammed lake upstream of the Gyirong Port in Tibet forced a temporary suspension of rescue operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Scientists have warned that Himalayan glaciers are melting because of climate change and creating glacial lakes, often dammed by loose rock and debris, which makes them unstable and prone to bursting their banks.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2024

Stained glass windows on the west side of the church, in the direct path of the storm, were shattered, allowing rain inside in addition to dammed stormwater forced into the building, Glenn said.

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024

A creek had been dammed, creating ponds that slowed the flow of water so the surrounding earth had more time to sop it up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

Orpheus, a professional architect, remodeled their house, designed and built a separate studio for Marian, and dammed up a small brook to make a swimming hole.

From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman

That mass of rock and ice plunged about 800 metres onto a debris-covered glacier, before surging downhill, briefly damming the Lhende River.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

For decades, damming rivers has generated bitter fights in places around the world, and international lenders have come under pressure not to support new projects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026

Organisers said the chances of seeing the nocturnal animals during the day would be slim but added the tours would offer a first hand look at the animals' damming and digging skills.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026

Andrew Law, a sociologist at Newcastle University in the U.K., has used lidar mapping to digitally preserve structures along China’s Yangtze River that were threatened or wiped out by extensive damming.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2025

And he pushed the King out of the door, damming it in his face.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White