Dam Removal Information Portal 1.0: American Rivers Dam Removals
Citation
Wieferich, D.J., Vittium, K., and Craig, L., 2016, American Rivers Dam Removals: a constituent dataset of the National Dam Removal Science Database, U.S. Geological Survey Data Release, doi:10.5066/F7CF9N6G.
Summary
Note: For the latest version of the American Rivers Dam Removal Database see https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5234068. This is a dynamic collection of dam removals shared with the USGS from American Rivers as part of a collaboration on the USGS National Dam Removal Science Database and the Dam Removal Information Portal. The query, provided by the included ScienceBase web link, retrieves dam removals from the Spatial Feature Registry, a resource of items that have been verified for spatial accuracy. The USGS receives periodic updates on American Rivers dam removal records and runs the records through a quality control process to align them with our system and enter them into the Spatial Feature Registry. Items are identified in [...]
This is a dynamic collection of dam removals shared with the USGS from American Rivers as part of a collaboration on the USGS National Dam Removal Science Database and the Dam Removal Information Portal. The query, provided by the included ScienceBase web link, retrieves dam removals from the Spatial Feature Registry, a resource of items that have been verified for spatial accuracy. The USGS receives periodic updates on American Rivers dam removal records and runs the records through a quality control process to align them with our system and enter them into the Spatial Feature Registry. Items are identified in the Registry by an American Rivers ID, and that is used to retrieve the American Rivers subset from the system.
American Rivers dam removals are included in the Dam Removal Information Portal as additional information beyond what the USGS has been able to assemble into the National Dam Removal Science Database. Further literature search and synthesis work may result in these dam removal projects being associated with scientific study details and eventually incorporated into the National Dam Removal Science Database.
Rights
Data on dam removals from American Rivers are shared with the USGS for the purpose of including their information, with appropriate attribution to American Rivers, in the Dam Removal Information Portal. The records in the Spatial Feature Registry, referenced through this ScienceBase Item, are derived from the original files provided by American Rivers and quality controlled to verify spatial location, hydrographic information (e.g., river reach code), and association with other data. The final records referenced through this item are now USGS data in the Spatial Feature Registry, but they should retain full attribution, including the reference to the original American Rivers identifier.
