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The Elwha Ecosystem Restoration Project is a 21st-century project of the U.S. National Park Service to remove two dams on the Elwha River on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, and restore the river to a natural state.
Robinson Creek in Boonville, California, had highly eroded stream banks prior to initiation of a stream restoration project.. Stream restoration or river restoration, also sometimes referred to as river reclamation, is work conducted to improve the environmental health of a river or stream, in support of biodiversity, recreation, flood management and/or landscape development.
The restoration project was completed on July 29, 2021. It restored 40 miles (64.3 km) of river and almost 25,000 acres of wetlands. [ 9 ] Lake Kissimmee is expected to rise one and a half feet, restoring water sequestration functions and easing seasonal droughts.
A national push to "rewild" looks to restore natural environments that might help mitigate the effects of climate change.
Hundreds of miles of salmon habitat will open up as a result of the largest dam removal and river restoration project in the world.
Because so few dam removal projects have been accompanied by scientific study, perhaps fewer than 20, [10] this project will be a model of the effectiveness of dam removal on this scale. If restoration of the river is successful, it could encourage a movement towards the restoration of natural stream morphology through the removal of larger ...
The Elwha Ecosystem Restoration project on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington started in 2012, and finished in 2014, the 108-foot (33 m) Elwha Dam and the 210-foot (64 m) Glines Canyon Dam were removed to restore stocks of Pacific Salmon and trout species to the Elwha River watershed. The removal of these blockades allows migratory salmon to ...
The Kissimmee River Restoration Project was approved by Congress in the Water Resources Development Act of 1992. The project was estimated to cost $578 million to convert only 22 miles (35 km) of the canal; the cost was designed to be divided between the state of Florida and the U.S. government, with the state being responsible for purchasing ...