Condit Dam Removal
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In late October 2011, PacifiCorp took the first steps to remove the 98-year-old Condit Dam from the White Salmon River. At 125 feet, Condit Dam will be the second-highest dam removal project in the United States, following the Elwha dam, where deconstruction began in late September.
The White Salmon River, a river that was blocked to salmon, steelhead and bull trout, is now free-flowing and filled with lush habitat
for swimming and spawning. The October breaching is just the beginning of a year-long project to set the White Salmon River free. This spring, the dam was carefully dismantled as onlookers waited for the river to slowly come back to life.
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