Record #:

8057

Author(s):

Luetze, Jim

Abstract:

In the early days of the 20th-century, the Cape Fear River did not have dams. Commercial traffic could reach Fayetteville and the fish could go as far as Durham. Dams and locks were built later to provide electric power and facilitate boat travel. For the past 70 years migrating fish have been prevented from going beyond Dam No. 1. Leutze examines a proposal to eliminate Lock and Dam No. 1 and possibly Nos. 2 and 3. While beneficial to the fish, the removal has implications for the city of Wilmington.

Source:

Metro Magazine (NoCar F 264 R1 M48), Vol. 7 Issue 9, Sept 2006, p79, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Dams--Cape Fear River

Record #:

12794

Author(s):

Norris, Jeannie Faris

Abstract:

Between 1913 and the early 1930s, three locks and dams were constructed in the Cape Fear River. Located at King's Bluff, Elizabethtown, and south of Fayetteville, the locks modernized the river, which increased navigability as well as commerce.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 28 Issue 2, June 1960, p12, il

Subject(s):

Cape Fear River--History; Dams--Cape Fear River

Record #:

22156

Author(s):

Horan, Jack

Abstract:

Ocean-dwelling American shad have for centuries returned to historic spawning grounds on middle Cape Fear River. However, for the last one hundred years, dams built by the US Army Corps of Engineers on the river from Wilmington to Fayetteville have blocked them. The Cape River Partnership, a coalition of twenty-three state and federal agencies, municipalities, and conservation groups has seen this year the realization this year of some their advocacies. Dam No. 1 now has its own rock arch rapids fishway past the dam, and at Dam No. 2 there is a newly placed spawning habitat of underwater gravel beds. The Partnership hopes that over the next few years Dams 1 and 2 will have their own fishways.

Source:

Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , Holiday 2013, p30-34, il, map Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Dams--Cape Fear River