As the gates leading from Sam Rayburn Lake open, the water rushes towards the Kaplan turbines some 100’ below. The river begins to rise and swell below the dam as the ground below your feet vibrates ...
Early this century, the Vernon Station hydropower dam on the Connecticut River generated an average of 135,000 megawatt hours (MWh) per year. In 2008, nearly a century after the Vermont dam was first ...
Caitlin Grady is affiliated with the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Geophysical Union. She receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of ...