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Home / Articles & Coverage / Bang! Watch a Nooksack River dam finally coming down, freeing miles for fish habitat

Bang! Watch a Nooksack River dam finally coming down, freeing miles for fish habitat

Lynda V. Mapes / Seattle Times / July 22, 2020

With a bang, Washington state’s dam-busting binge continued last week, as the city of Bellingham blew up its 25-foot-tall dam here.

The $17 million project will open 16 miles of habitat for fish including spring chinook important to southern resident killer whales, and is expected to be completed by September.

Removal of the Middle Fork diversion dam on the Nooksack follows detonation of the Condit on the White Salmon in 2011, the blow-up of Elwha Dam in 2012 and deconstruction of Glines Canyon Dam, completed in 2014, both on the Olympic Peninsula’s Elwha River.

Read full feature article here: Bang! Watch a Nooksack River dam finally coming down, freeing miles for fish habitat

Original URL: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/nooksack-river-dam-finally-coming-down-freeing-miles-for-fish-habitat/?utm_source=marketingcloud&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Morning+Brief+7-20-20_7_20_2020&utm_term=

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