Elwha Sediment Brings New Life Downstream 

Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at 12:02AM
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So far about 3 million cubic yards of sediment -- enough to fill about 300,000 dump trucks -- has been released from the giant bathtubs of sediment that formed behind the two hydroelectric dams upstream. And that’s only 16 percent of what’s expected to be delivered downstream in the next five years.

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