Fox River in Illinois and Wisconsin. Sewage and runoff from Chicago area pollute and drain water. Carmel River in California. Monterey County sprawl drains water. Coal River in West Virginia.
Coal mining threatens waterway.
Bear River in Utah. Environmentalists say at least half of the money the Army Corps of Engineers proposes to spend at the dams next year to help fish will be wasted, because the technical fixes won't work or would be better tried at Columbia River dams. The corps is expected to complete a study next year on whether breaching the Snake dams is the best way to help salmon. While environmentalists say that removing the earthen portions of the four dams would allow water and salmon to flow freely past them, industry groups complain the move would also render the dams useless. Salmon survival is improving because of spillways and other methods to help the salmon get past the dams, Lovelin said.