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Don’t expect that investment to be made anytime soon (things like wars and unruly banks are demanding more of Washington’s attention), but until it is, more dams will break.One solution rightly being championed by enviros—American cartier Santos 100 Chronograph watches Whitewater, Save Our Wild Salmon, American Rivers--is to purge old and unproductive dams from the inventory, like Washington State did when they tore Hemlock Dam down last August. Check out Outsides July issue for coverage and this film for more info. Removal’s good for endangered fish and restores ecosystems, but it’s expensive, so relatively infrequent. Hemlock, just 26-feet tall, cost a cool $2.7 million to tear down.

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Kayakers have come up with another idea: convert old dams into whitewater parks, concrete structures built into a river to create rapids. And it’s gaining traction. Eighty-five new parks popped up in the past ten years and about 25 more are in various stages of construction. Most dams costs between $50,000 and $2.5 million to cartier Tank Americaine watches convert into a park, or roughly half the cost of refurbishing or removing dams. That price point spurred cities well off kayakers radars, like Flint, Michigan, and Springfield, Iowa, to commit to installing parks.If the failure of Lake Delhi dam is an indication of whats to come, more whitewater parks could be the best thing for America. In other words, paddling is patriotic.