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The soil and rocks originally dug and transported from a nearby mountain in the 1950s will be returned to their home and the river will run freely again.A big part of that effort is centered around dams, many of which were originally constructed when infrastructural development took priority over environmental protection.
And because of aged-out infrastructure, some dams can put people in danger of catastrophic flooding, as more extreme climate events become more common.
McCovey expressed excitement now that the removal has finally begun, calling it “the biggest single restorative action that we can take to start to bring balance back to the ecosystem.” He warned that it could take considerable time to see the impacts.
The Renewal Corporation, environmentalists and the tribes argue that the cost is worth to restore nature to its roots and they point to the success of the Elwha Dam Removal project on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state in 2011.
That project restored the river’s natural flow, which enabled salmon to return almost immediately, and rebuilt a beach and lagoon that had been deprived of sediment for decades.
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