LOWELL — Enel North America, the parent company of Boott Hydropower, is proposing a $6 million change to Lowell’s Pawtucket Dam that would replace the archaic plywood and steel-pin flashboard ...

Flashboard system works just fine Share this: Click to share on Facebook ... When high water occurs, the pins give way and the flashboards wash away, thus lowering the water level.

ANN ARBOR, MI -- If the Huron River looks a little low this month, don't worry. It's part of a Superior Dam fix spearheaded by Ann Arbor's water department. City officials plan to replace 139 feet ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The installation of flashboards on the Center Street Dam will temporarily cause low water levels in the Des Moines River over the weekend. Starting Friday, the City of Des ...

"We refer to this as a 'steel-and-flashboard dam,'" Gray said of Rainbow Dam. "The wooden boards are actually the water retaining feature of the dam. Behind the boards, ...

Reliant Energy has completed installing environmentally friendly operating equipment to upgrade the company's 5-MW Feeder Dam hydroelectric plant on the Hudson River in New York.

Rubber bladders designed to alter water levels at the Lewiston Falls dam were vandalized in early October, said dam operator Brookfield White Pine Hydro. A temporary flashboard system has since ...

D ue to recent high water on the Mohawk, the New York Power Authority, working with the Canal Corporation, will re-install flashboards at Crescent & Vischer Ferry dams starting Tuesday, May 20 ...

The water level on the Des Moines River between Saylorville Lake and Des Moines will be noticeably lower this week. ... Bad weather could force the flashboard removal to be pushed back to Wednesday.

The key to restoring a drained peat bog is to make it wet again. One simple but effective tool is a flashboard riser, which allows water levels to be adjusted manually to mimic seasonal flooding.