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January 2, 2013

With Elwha Dam down, researchers watch shoreline ecosystem recover

By JEREMY SCHWARTZ
Peninsula Daily News

AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Steve Ringman [enlarge]
The 108-foot-tall Elwha Dam, seen here being chipped away by an excavator on a barge, stood upriver for nearly a century before it was dismantled as part of the nation’s largest dam removal project.

PORT ANGELES — Few people are excited to see a big pile of sand, unless it's a big pile of sand at the mouth of the Elwha River.


 
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