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July 27, 2018
Removing an Outmoded Dam
I was going to post the photo below as a Monday Morning Mystery but thought it too dang obscure, even by my warped standards. It's a piece of the Columbia Lake Dam, an outmoded hydroelectric dam that The Nature Conservancy and its many partners having been working intensely to remove.
The dam isn't gone yet but its days are numbered, and it will be a boon to the watershed and to migratory fish and eels.
You can read more here.
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Was there just last week. . . .
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Not too obscure for me. The dam is just a few miles up the road! Thanks for posting.
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Deedee Burnside
Was there just last week. . . .
Pat Price
Not too obscure for me. The dam is just a few miles up the road! Thanks for posting.