North Carolina's Lassiter Mill Dam Removed

Another one bites the dust.

Two excavators, chisel and dig to remove Lassiter Mill Dam in the Uwharrie River in Randolph County, North Carolina. Prior to demolition, The Lassiter Mill building collapsed on its own, but the concrete structure was still standing, creating a wall that turned the free-flowing river into a stagnant pond -- too slow, too deep, and too silty for the mussels and fish that need the natural, shallow, fast flowing water to survive. But all this changed on August 27, 2013 when demolition began to restore the health of the river.