Table 4. Reported biophysical metrics.
| Physical | Water quality | Biological | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dam name and location (US state abbreviation) | Sediment grain size | Turbidity | Suspended-sediment concentration | Phosphate concentration | Nitrate concentration | Temperature | Dissolved oxygen | Aquatic invertebrates | Fish single species | Fish community |
| Appleton, MN | ||||||||||
| Big Spring, WI | ||||||||||
| Boulder Creek, WI* | ||||||||||
| Brewster, IL | ||||||||||
| Brownsville, OR | ||||||||||
| Carbonton, NC | ||||||||||
| Central Avenue, OH | ||||||||||
| Chiloquin, OR | ||||||||||
| Condit, WA | ||||||||||
| Dead Lake, FL | ||||||||||
| Dexter, MI | ||||||||||
| Dinner Creek, OR | ||||||||||
| Edwards, ME | ||||||||||
| Elwha, WA | ||||||||||
| Embrey, VA | ||||||||||
| Fifth Avenue, OH | ||||||||||
| Fort Covington, NY | ||||||||||
| Fossil Creek, AZ | ||||||||||
| Franklin Mills, PA | ||||||||||
| Gold Ray, OR | ||||||||||
| Good Hope, PA | ||||||||||
| Hellberg’s, PA | ||||||||||
| Hemlock, WA | ||||||||||
| Hinkletown, PA | ||||||||||
| Homestead, NH | ||||||||||
| LaValle, WI | ||||||||||
| Lowell, NC | ||||||||||
| Main Street, OH | ||||||||||
| Manatawny, PA | ||||||||||
| Marmot, OR | ||||||||||
| McCormick-Saeltzer, CA | ||||||||||
| Merrimack Village, NH | ||||||||||
| Mill, ME | ||||||||||
| Milltown, MT | ||||||||||
| Munroe Falls, OH | ||||||||||
| Murphy Creek, CA | ||||||||||
| Mystic, MT | ||||||||||
| Nashville, MI | ||||||||||
| North Avenue, WI | ||||||||||
| Oak, WI | ||||||||||
| Off Billington Street, MA | ||||||||||
| Pawtuxet Falls, RI | ||||||||||
| Pelham, MA | ||||||||||
| Quaker Neck, NC | ||||||||||
| River Street, OH | ||||||||||
| Rockdale, WI | ||||||||||
| Sandstone, MN | ||||||||||
| Savage Rapids, OR | ||||||||||
| Secor, OH | ||||||||||
| Shearer, OR | ||||||||||
| Shopiere, WI | ||||||||||
| Simkins, MD | ||||||||||
| Sodom, OR | ||||||||||
| South Batavia, IL | ||||||||||
| St. John, OH | ||||||||||
| Stronach, MI | ||||||||||
| Waterworks, WI | ||||||||||
| Woodside, SC* | ||||||||||
| Woolen Mills, VA | ||||||||||
| Woolen Mills, WI | ||||||||||
| Zemko, CT | ||||||||||
| Total: | 34 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 14 | 14 | 25 | 28 | 28 |
Biophysical metrics that were reported before and after dam removal; blank cell = no response reported, grey cell = response reported.
*In two instances, two dam removals were reported together in the literature–Upper and Lower Boulder Creek, WI, and Woodside I and II, SC.