List_of_dam_removals_in_Alabama
This is a list of dams in Alabama that have been removed as physical impediments to free-flowing rivers or streams.
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Dam[1] | Height | Year removed | Location | Watercourse | Watershed | Notes |
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Unnamed dam | 2007 | Hanceville 34.0555°N 86.7558°W / 34.0555; -86.7558 |
Mud Creek | Black Warrior River | Dam was illegally constructed by Hanceville Water and Sewer to capture raw sewage leaking from a wastewater treatment plant.[2] | |
Old Shadow Lake Dam | 6 ft (1.8 m) | 2013 | Pinson 33.6828°N 86.6464°W / 33.6828; -86.6464 (Old Shadow Lake Dam) |
Turkey Creek | Dam built for swimming. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service partnered with the Freshwater Land Trust to remove the dam, which had blocked passage of the endangered vermilion darter.[3][4] | |
Marvel Slab Dam | 6 ft (1.8 m) | 2004 | Montevallo 33.1656°N 87.0294°W / 33.1656; -87.0294 (Marvel Slab Dam) |
Cahaba River | Cahaba River | Dam consisted of 46 culverts under a bridge that allowed coal and logging trucks and coal mining equipment to cross the river.[5] |
Shades Branch Steel Ford | 2011 | West Blocton 33.221°N 87.0295°W / 33.221; -87.0295 (Shades Branch Steel Ford) |
Shades Branch | |||
Goodwins Mill Dam[6] | 15 ft (4.6 m) | 2013 | St. Clair County 33.8197°N 86.3855°W / 33.8197; -86.3855 (Goodwins Mill Dam) |
Big Canoe Creek | Coosa River | Grist mill dam. |
Unnamed dam | 2022 | Etowah County 34.0059°N 86.0688°W / 34.0059; -86.0688 |
Big Wills Creek | |||
Eagle & Phenix Dam[7] | 17 ft (5.2 m) | 2012 | Phenix City 32.4698°N 84.9976°W / 32.4698; -84.9976 (Eagle & Phenix Dam) |
Chattahoochee River | Chattahoochee River | Dam powered the defunct Eagle and Phenix textile mill. National Inventory of Dams ID GA05180. |
City Mills Dam[7] | 10 ft (3.0 m) | 2013 | Phenix City 32.4801°N 84.9944°W / 32.4801; -84.9944 (City Mills Dam) |
Hydropower dam. | ||
Unnamed dam | 2010 | Seale 32.364°N 85.1216°W / 32.364; -85.1216 |
Uchee Creek | |||
Howle and Turner Dam[8] | 16 ft (4.9 m) | 2019 | Cleburne County 33.552°N 85.612°W / 33.552; -85.612 (Howle and Turner Dam) |
Tallapoosa River | Tallapoosa River | Dam built for a grist mill and cotton gin, owned by Heflin Waterworks and Sewer Board/Tyson Corp. |
Livingston Dam | 2019 | Livingston 32.5885°N 88.1975°W / 32.5885; -88.1975 (Livingston Dam) |
Sucarnoochee River | Tombigbee River | Water supply dam abandoned by 1994.[9] |
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Dam | Expected year | Location | Watercourse | Watershed | Notes |
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Langdale Dam | Chambers County 32.8156°N 85.1653°W / 32.8156; -85.1653 (Langdale Dam) |
Chatahoochee River | Chatahoochee River | In 2018, Georgia Power filed to decommission and remove the outdated hydroelectric dams.[10] | |
Riverview Dam | Chambers County 32.7928°N 85.1431°W / 32.7928; -85.1431 (Riverview Dam) |
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- Rivers, American (13 February 2023). "American Rivers Dam Removal Database". Figshare. American Rivers. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.5234068.v10. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
- Williamson, Karen (23 August 2007). "Dam removed". The Cullman Times. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
- Songer, Joe (20 November 2013). "Turkey Creek section restored after dam removal (photos, video and time lapse)". al.com. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- Pillion, Dennis (16 November 2017). "Endangered Alabama fish confirmed in new area". al.com. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- Nijhuis, Michelle (August 2009). "The Cahaba: A River of Riches". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- Pillion, Dennis (27 October 2015). "Big Canoe Creek flowing free after dam removed". al.com. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- Chitwood, Tim; Stevens, Tiffany (12 March 2013). "UPDATE: City Mills dam blast bigger than Eagle & Phenix". Ledger-Enquirer. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- Wilson, Bill (4 June 2019). "Dam on Tallapoosa River being removed this week". The Anniston Star. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- Pillion, Dennis (24 April 2019). "Alabama river flows free after dam removal". al.com.
- Trahan, Cole (19 February 2022). "Georgia Power looks to remove dams along the Chattahoochee". Valley Times-News. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
- Media related to Removed dams in Alabama at Wikimedia Commons