This is a list of dams in Alabama that have been removed as physical impediments to free-flowing rivers or streams.__TOC__
Dam[1] | Height | Year removed | Location | Watercourse | Watershed | Notes | |
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Unnamed dam | 2007 | Hanceville | Mud Creek | Black Warrior River | Dam was illegally constructed by Hanceville Water and Sewer to capture raw sewage leaking from a wastewater treatment plant.[2] | ||
Old Shadow Lake Dam | 2013 | Pinson | Turkey Creek | Dam built for swimming. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service partnered with the Freshwater Land Trust to remove the dam, which had blocked passage of the endangered vermilion darter.[3] [4] | |||
Marvel Slab Dam | 2004 | Montevallo | Cahaba River | Cahaba River | Dam consisted of 46 culverts under a bridge that allowed coal and logging trucks and coal mining equipment to cross the river.[5] | ||
Shades Branch Steel Ford | 2011 | West Blocton | Shades Branch | ||||
Goodwins Mill Dam[6] | 2013 | St. Clair County | Big Canoe Creek | Coosa River | Grist mill dam. | ||
Unnamed dam | 2022 | Etowah County | Big Wills Creek | ||||
Eagle & Phenix Dam[7] | 2012 | Phenix City | Chattahoochee River | Chattahoochee River | Dam powered the defunct Eagle and Phenix textile mill. . | ||
City Mills Dam | 2013 | Phenix City | Hydropower dam. | ||||
Unnamed dam | 2010 | Seale | Uchee Creek | ||||
Howle and Turner Dam[8] | 2019 | Cleburne County | Tallapoosa River | Tallapoosa River | Dam built for a grist mill and cotton gin, owned by Heflin Waterworks and Sewer Board/Tyson Corp. | ||
Livingston Dam | 2019 | Livingston | Sucarnoochee River | Tombigbee River | Water supply dam abandoned by 1994.[9] |
Dam | Expected year | Location | Watercourse | Watershed | Notes |
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Langdale Dam | Chambers County | Chatahoochee River | Chatahoochee River | In 2018, Georgia Power filed to decommission and remove the outdated hydroelectric dams.[10] | |
Riverview Dam | Chambers County |