Evans Creek dams on track for removal this summer

Two of Oregon's worst wild fish barriers are on track to be jettisoned from Evans Creek this summer under a plan to open as much as 70 miles of prime spawning habitat for the Rogue River Basin's wild salmon and steelhead.

Project managers last week garnered a key state fish-passage permit that will help push other state and federal permits forward for removing the crumbling and abandoned Fielder and Wimer dams, which impede migrating wild salmon, including threatened wild coho.

LINK (via:The Mail Tribune)

Groton Dam Removal Project

Inspired by DamNation, along with some help via a 6K Patagonia World Trout grant.

The Last Dam on Whychus Creek Slated for Removal

Photo: Ian Shane

Another one bites the dust.

The removal of the last remaining concrete dam on Whychus Creek near Sisters, Oregon is slated to get underway following a ceremony on Monday.

LINK (via: Jefferson Public Radio)

New life for the Carmel River

Another one bites the dust.

California American Water, with partners NOAA Fisheries and the California State Coastal Conservancy, announced today that the second season of construction for the San Clemente Dam Removal Project will begin this May. The project’s three year construction schedule began last summer and is on-track for completion next year. San Clemente Dam is a 106-foot-high concrete arch dam located 18 miles upstream from the Pacific Ocean on the Carmel River in Monterey County.

It is the largest dam removal project in California history.