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Better Video: National Geographic Films Condit Dam Breaching

October 28, 2011

Alan Durning

October 28, 2011

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The professionals have now produced a Condit Dam Breaching video worthy of the event.

The instant restoration of downstream sediment flow is particularly cool to see. Geomorphology is rarely so visible.

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Alan Durning

Alan Durning, executive director, founded Northwest Environment Watch in 1993, which became Sightline Institute in 2006. Alan’s current topics of focus include housing affordability and democracy reform.

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Joe Hiss

November 4, 2011 at 12:13 pm

Thanks for the graphic history of such a positive event! In the early nineties I assisted in a small part of the research that led to the removal.

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