Washington river freed after world's biggest-ever dam removal

The biggest dam-removal project in history is complete and Washington state's Elwha River is running freely for the first time in more than a century. A blast yesterday destroyed the final 30 feet of the 210-foot Glines Canyon Dam, completed in 1927, on the Olympic Peninsula.

The older, 108-foot Elwha Dam was destroyed last year as part of a project to restore what was once the best salmon river in the area.

The restoration has been "the dream of tribal members for a hundred years," a spokesman for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe told the Peninsula Daily News as the tribe celebrated.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/08/27/washington-river-freed-after-world-biggest-ever-dam-removal/?intcmp=obnetwork

In salmon country, a dam without a lock system is a really stupid idea.

I read somewhere there are a number of these ill-conceived dams scheduled for removal.

Of course I'm still waiting for the Everglades reclamation project - but then there is that big dam down there called BIG SUGAR........

nochain wrote:

I read somewhere there are a number of these ill-conceived dams scheduled for removal.

Of course I'm still waiting for the Everglades reclamation project - but then there is that big dam down there called BIG SUGAR........

It'll never happen, Nochain. Too much money damning the works.