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October 27, 2011

Condit Dam removal saving utility $70M

  • PacifiCorp said removing the dam will cost $32 million, far less than the $100 million in improvements required to relicense the dam.
    • By SHANNON DININNY
    Associated Press

    A muddy stew of black silt and water roared through a hole that was breached Wednesday in a nearly century-old dam in the south Cascades, marking another step in ongoing efforts to restore habitat for threatened and endangered fish in the Pacific Northwest.

    The more than 12-story Condit Dam on the White Salmon River is the second-tallest dam in U.S. history to be breached for fish passage, according to the advocacy group American Rivers.


     
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