#condit dam

[roomthily]

What was held in compiled torpor for up to a century was suddenly jettisoned across landscapes like a geological slurry. In a pulse of fluvial magma, destructive force was transmuted into a regenerative process. Landscape experiments such as these go by the catchall designation of ‘adaptive management’. We might also construe such endeavors as the delegation and recruitment of entropy, whereby dredging becomes co-collaborative land and river maker

Recruitment of Entropy (Advancing Deltas V) | Free Association Design

i have no idea where this tab came from but i like it. it's about dam removal and large-scale experimentation and people's sense of place.

[reconnect-restore-rewild]

"In an effort to return Washington's White Salmon River to local wildlife, engineers blew a hole in the long-standing Condit Dam. On October 26th, a hole was blasted in the base of 125' tall Condit Dam on the White Salmon River in Washington. In less than two hours, the reservoir behind the dam drained completely and the White Salmon flowed unimpeded for the first time in 100 year." 

Just in case anyone missed this. So incredible and inspiring! Pretty amazing video too. 

[iwild]

The White Salmon River Flows Free

This timelapse video by Andy Masur records the explosive rewilding of Washington's White Salmon River.  Steelhead rejoice. 

[mitchanan]

Condit Dam (via The Awesomer) 

[tumbledore]

I went whitewater rafting on the White Salmon River in Washington state this summer. Here's some video of the 125' tall Condit Dam on that river being intentionally breached and the subsequent draining of the reservoir behind it (the largest dam ever removed in the United States), allowing the White Salmon River to flow freely for the first time since 1913.  

[leonschoots]

The Year of the River - pt. 2

So awesome!

[kentbye-blog]

This is a subtle video of ripple patterns that are happening within the sediment of the White Salmon River where Northwestern Lake used to be. At first, it may look like nothing is happening and that this is a boring video, but watch how the evenly-spaced ripples start to slowly move upstream in unison and then completely dissipate. You can use the stumps on the ground as a reference point. I love to watch one spot in nature and see the patterns that emerge, and this is a rare video that is able to capture some truly bizarre behavior.

[kentbye-blog]

Columbia Riverkeeper published a series of different clips of the aftermath of the Condit Dam breach including some arial shots of the mouth of the breached dam, the silty water reaching the Columbia River, and some shots of the initial wave of water rushing down the lower part of the White Salmon. They even come back the next day to shoot some more footage of how the sediment is getting carved out of what used too be Northwestern Lake.