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September 13, 2013

Hydroelectric power makes big comeback at U.S. dams

  • Renewed interest could bring changes to scores of American dams.
    • By DAVID PITT
    Associated Press

    AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall [enlarge]
    James Johnson, of Marshalltown, Iowa, fishes below the dam at Lake Red Rock in Iowa. A power company wants to drill two holes in the 110-foot high dam and run water through two turbines.

    DES MOINES, Iowa — On a typical summer weekend, hundreds of boats glide across the shimmering surface of Iowa's Lake Red Rock, the state's largest body of water.


     
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