Removing Condit Dam spurred hopes, but it also begged …
2021年10月16日 · Removing the 100-year-old Condit Dam in 2011 came with the hope of returning the White Salmon River to its natural state, benefiting tribes, river recreationalists, and salmon. Did it work?
Condit Hydroelectric Project - Wikipedia
Condit Dam was the largest dam ever removed in the United States until the Elwha Ecosystem Restoration Project on the Olympic Peninsula removed the larger Elwha Dam and Glines Canyon Dam. Overview and history
Condit - PacifiCorp
The method for dam removal involves clearing sediment and debris immediately upstream from the tunnel and then drilling and blasting a 13-foot by 18-foot drain tunnel in the base of the dam to within a few feet of the dam’s face.
Dam Removal on the Lower White Salmon - IJW
We report on the 2011 removal of the Condit Dam on the Lower White Salmon River, which had been declared wild and scenic in 1986. The Condit was decommissioned largely to reintroduce anadromous fish to the river and involved collaboration among many interests.
Condit Dam is gone. The fate of the land around it remains in …
2023年11月29日 · Even before PacifiCorp began removing the 125-foot-tall hydroelectric Condit Dam in southwest Washington in 2011, speculation ran rampant about how the power company would dispose of the approximately 500 acres of land along the …
2024年5月17日 · Condit’s history shows how provisions of the Federal Power Act that allow federal fish management agencies to impose fishway prescriptions on dam relicensing can lead to the outright removal of a project that is uneconomical to operate with the necessary fish passage.
History of the Condit Dam and its 2011 Removal
2021年10月26日 · The removal of the Condit Dam was covered by every major news source, and footage of the landmark river restoration event was cast nationwide. November-December, 2011. We watched closely as the river changed. Northwestern Lake take-out was closed; wood bridge pilings embedded in the sediment presented a hazard to river users. PacifiCorp and JR ...
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Condit Dam Removal
Removal of the project would enable the river and watershed to return to the conditions of a free-flowing river. Originally completed in 1913, Condit Dam has since accumulated sediment and blocked fish passage. Removing the dam is expected to provide access to as much as 33 miles of
After nearly a century of serving customers of the former Northwestern Electric Company, Pacific Power & Light and now PacifiCorp, physical removal of the Condit Dam began in late August 2011, fulfilling a multi-party settlement agreement signed in 1999.
Significant actions to remove the dam began in late August 2011. Blasting and boring work will create a 13-foot high by 18-foot wide drain tunnel on the downstream side, near the base of the dam.
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