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Example sentences for: dams

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The dams, which went up in the 1930s and provide about 4 percent of the Pacific Northwest's electricity, have killed off nearly all the river's varieties of salmon.
But even environmentalists concede it's far from clear if taking the dams out of service would revive the fish population.
The artificial dams above the gorge have created attractive lakes, known as the Pantanos del Chorro.
It was refurbished in the Victorian era but rendered useless by succeeding Nile dams.
Under a three-column photograph on its front page, the NYT reports that the federal government is considering the highly controversial step of dismantling four huge dams on Washington's Snake River.