A total of 2,300 dams have been demolished since 1912, with 1,100 of these taking place in the east, bringing bountiful rewards: in Maine, the river herring population has rebounded by six million after two dams were removed along the Penobscot River.

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Waterway blockages remain an outstanding issue in the local ecosystem, with 35,000 dams still serving to fracture aquatic species, but this is a vast improvement over the 65,000 dams that existed at the peak of the American milling boom.

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