A team of USGS scientists tests the turbidity levels of the Elwha River from a bridge just below the location of the lower dam.
credit:
Katie Campbell
This isokinetic sampler was dropped from the side of a bridge abover the Elwha River. It's is shaped to be lowered into flowing rivers to collect water samples.
credit:
Katie Campbell
This team of USGS scientists is monitoring the effects of releasing the massive amounts of sediment that has been stored behind two dams on the Elwha River.
credit:
Katie Campbell
James Foreman, a USGS scientist, is gathering water samples in the Elwha River to track levels of turbidity during dam removal.
credit:
Katie Campbell
Raymond Moses, a fisheries biologist for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, stands in the Elwha River near of the first coho nests to be laid above the dams.
credit:
Katie Campbell
Chris Magirl, a USGS researcher, grabs one of the pint-size bottles of murky water that was taken from the Elwha River.
credit:
Katie Campbell
Construction crews redirected the channel of the Elwha River during the deconstruction of the lower dam. At the start of the afternoon it looked like this.
credit:
Katie Campbell
Construction crews redirected the channel of the Elwha River during the deconstruction of the lower dam. This is about 2 hours after the previous picture.