(Photo) The remnants of Dam Number 1 in Wheeling

The low-head dam that gave Dam Number 1 Woods on Illinois' Des Plaines River is gone now.

Pictured is what is left of it.

The low-head dams are hazardous to canoeists and kayakers.

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