Hydroelectric Power Plants in Washington State, 1890--1938 MPS
NRHP reference No.
88002741[2]
Added to NRHP
December 15, 1988
The Elwha Dam was a 108-ft (33 m) high dam located in the United States, in the state of Washington, on the Elwha River approximately 4.9 miles (7.9 km) upstream from the mouth of the river on the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
The Elwha River Ecosystem and Fisheries Restoration Act of 1992 authorized the US Federal Government to acquire the Elwha Dam and Glines Canyon Dam hydroelectric power projects for decommissioning and demolition for habitat restoration. Removal of the Elwha Dam began in September 2011 and was fully complete by March 2012, allowing the Elwha River to flow freely through the site.
^"Restoring Rivers: Major upcoming dam removals in the Pacific Northwest" (PDF). www.water.ca.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 21, 2016. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
The ElwhaDam was a 108-ft (33 m) high dam located in the United States, in the state of Washington, on the Elwha River approximately 4.9 miles (7.9 km)...
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...
behind ElwhaDam. Downriver from the former site of the ElwhaDam, the Elwha River flows several miles north through the Elwha Canyon and the Lower Elwha Indian...
Glines Canyon Dam, also known as Upper ElwhaDam, built in 1927, was a 210-foot (64 m) high concrete arch dam built on the Elwha River within Olympic National...
108-foot (33 m) ElwhaDam 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 Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe (or Nəxʷsƛ̓áy̓əm ("strong people") in Klallam ) is a federally recognized Native American nation in the Pacific Northwest...
Glines Canyon Dam and draining its reservoir, Lake Mills and removing the 108-foot (33 m) ElwhaDam and its reservoir Lake Aldwell from the Elwha River. Upon...
to dams. The world's largest dam removal occurred on the Elwha river in the U.S. state of Washington (see Restoration of the Elwha River). Two dams, the...
Washington ElwhaDam, one of two dams on the Elwha River until being removed in 2012 Elwha snowfinger, a perennial snowfield, separating the Elwha River and...
Condit Dam, on the White Salmon River in Klickitat County ElwhaDam and Glines Canyon Dam, on the Elwha River in Clallam County List of dams in the Columbia...
Creek once sustained anadromous fish populations, but construction of the ElwhaDam in 1913 blocked access to the ocean, eliminating several salmon species...
Restoration were Lake Aldwell (behind the former ElwhaDam) and Lake Mills (behind the former Glines Canyon Dam). The peninsula contains many state and national...
and the dam was intentionally breached on October 26, 2011. Condit Dam was the largest dam ever removed in the United States until the Elwha Ecosystem...
mouth of the Elwha River on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington. The reservoir was created in 1913 behind the ElwhaDam, which was fully...
Falls Dam – Banks Lake Diablo Dam and Diablo Lake – Skagit River, Seattle City Light ElwhaDam – Lake Aldwell Glines Canyon Dam – Lake Mills Gorge Dam – Skagit...
monument. The Elwha River was dammed in 1910 with construction of the ElwhaDam. A second dam was built a few miles upstream in 1927. Neither dam had any fish...
businessman who developed and gained financing for a project to build the ElwhaDam on the Elwha River in Washington state, approximately 4.9 miles upstream from...
waterfront in Port Angeles, and the restoration of the Elwha River. The removal of the Elwhadams, beginning in September 2011, drained Lake Aldwell reservoir...
construction of the ElwhaDam in 1913. However, both the ElwhaDam and Glines Canyon Dam were removed in 2012. As part of the Elwha Ecosystem Restoration...
features. For example, fish restoration motivated the Elwha Ecosystem Restoration and the dam removal on the river Allier, while recovery of both native...
American civil and mining engineer Thomas Aldwell American engineer of the ElwhaDam Ángela Alessio Robles Mexican civil engineer and town planner Archie Alexander...
By 2014 the ElwhaDam and all other dams along the Elwha River were removed. When the river flooded in November 2015, both Altair and Elwha Campgrounds...
the 1950s. Some early hydroelectric projects like the now demolished ElwhaDam were built to power lumber mills, at one time at the root of the region's...
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