PORT ANGELES — The Elwha River dam removal project’s primary purpose ¬­– to restore salmon habitat on the North Olympic Peninsula’s largest watershed — suffered some collateral damage earlier this ...

Completion of a new water treatment plant in Port Angeles, Wash. in December was one of the final projects necessary for the start of the largest dam removal project in the United States. Photo ...

Elwha dam removal is hostage to repairs at water-treatment facilities built as part of the $325 million federal river-restoration project. The National Park Service, which is leading the dam ...

Pink salmon, also known as humpback, are the smallest of the salmon species. While chinook can grow to 40 to 50 pounds or larger, pinks can grow up to 12 pounds, according to the Fish and Wildlife ...

AP Elwha Dam, built without fish ladders, blocks a run where salmon weighed up to 100 lb. By issuing a state water-quality permit, Washington state has removed a critical hurdle for the National ...

At the “diversion” in the river where some of the Elwha’s water is shunted to the treatment plant, researchers regularly take water samples to figure out how much sediment is muddying the ...

Work to remove the dam on the Olympic Peninsula was suspended in October 2012 because heavy sediment from the increased river flow was clogging downstream water-treatment facilities.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Logo. Local // Joel Connelly. Elwha: The Olympics' greatest river being restored and reborn ...

PORT ANGELES, Wash. – The largest run of chinook salmon in decades returned to the Elwha River this fall, according to officials with the Olympic National Park. Fish are streaming into stretches ...

PORT ANGELES -- A long-delayed project to remove two dams on the Olympic Peninsula's Elwha River received official approval as members of the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe joined the city of Port ...

And just over two weeks later, staff at Olympic National Park spotted three Chinook salmon above Glines Canyon—the first salmon to return to the Upper Elwha River in 102 years. “I have been fortunate ...

Before the dams were built, without fish ladders, in 1913 and 1927 respectively, wild chinook salmon, some as large as 100-pounds, had access to 70 miles of the Elwha and its tributaries.