Condit Dam Has a Hole in it!
Here is a sequence of photos from just upstream of the dam shot at 2 pm, 2 hours after the breach. The smell was very earthy, the scouring quite significant and the amount of scouring left for the river to do quite significant.
Today is an interesting day in the history of free running rivers. The White Salmon river is now back in the club. After 20 years of negotiations Pacific Corp decided it was time to let the salmon and steelhead swim upstream and the kayakers and rafters float downstream. There was a big party to celebrate the day. The process employeed is called “Blow and Go”. They blow a hole in the bottom of the dam and hope all the upstream sediment washes away quickly with the big rush of water.
This is a link to Pacific Corps website: