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Breaking News -- July 29, 2009, The Press Democrat, Test Result Triggers Safety Inspection of Warm Springs Dam A team of experts called in by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began inspecting Warm Springs Dam Tuesday after a monitoring well showed an unusual increase in the water level at its base. The water level in one of a series of testing wells penetrating the earthen dam rose 14 feet in a week, the Corps said Tuesday. It is located near the base of the dam, about 700 feet from the top. Corps officials stressed that no other monitoring device — there are 194 of them — showed anything unusual and a chemical analysis showed the water came from groundwater, not water from the lake. Read the full story June 28, 2009, The New York Times, Dams Are Thwarting Louisiana Marsh Restoration, Study Says Desperate to halt the erosion of Louisiana’s coast, officials there are talking about breaking Mississippi River levees south of New Orleans to restore the nourishing flow of muddy water into the state’s marshes. But in a new analysis, scientists at Louisiana State University say inland dams trap so much sediment that the river no longer carries enough to halt marsh loss, especially now that global warming is speeding a rise in sea levels. Read the full story May 12, 2009, The Hillsboro Argus, Seismic Concerns Complicate Scoggins Dam Project The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is evaluating the safety of Scoggins Dam in light of scientists' increased understanding of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the major fault line that runs off the Oregon Coast and the possibility of a 9.0 quake along that fault. Read the full story
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