Just doing a thread to post various things about restoring watersheds back to more free flowing for overall better water quality and fish habitat and still have some use from it for humans.
The Kalmath river and its dam removal is a project to help get better fish spawning and more fish.One thing with this project as well as many others is reality of aging infrastructure and cost benefit from fixing it.Kalmath dams were going to cost more to fix than it was to tear them down.Theres still going to be dams way up river but these 4 dams are going to open up so much habitat.This river was the 3rd largest salmon fish producer on west coast.
The Kalmath river and its dam removal is a project to help get better fish spawning and more fish.One thing with this project as well as many others is reality of aging infrastructure and cost benefit from fixing it.Kalmath dams were going to cost more to fix than it was to tear them down.Theres still going to be dams way up river but these 4 dams are going to open up so much habitat.This river was the 3rd largest salmon fish producer on west coast.