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September 9, 2004

Construction Industry Spotlight: Building a subterranean highway for fish

  • The Yakama Nation is reconstructing two tunnels through Castile Falls so that salmon can spawn on the upper reaches of the Klickitat River.
    • By ERIK ROBINSON
    The Columbian

    Castile Falls
    AP photo
    Castile Falls, with its 11 waterfalls, is a tough route for spawning salmon on the Klickitat River.

    CASTILE FALLS, Yakima County — The Klickitat River plunges through rounded walls of basalt, tumbling through a narrow canyon created when lava flowed from Mount Adams a half-million years ago.


     
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