Hemlock Dam Removal
Hemlock Dam was demolished and removed in the summer of 2009. The dam was an aging Forest Service facility on Trout Creek, in the Wind River watershed of southwest Washington. At 26-feet high and 183 feet across, the concrete dam formed a migration impediment to Lower Columbia River steelhead, and degraded water quality and habitat for the fish through the lower two miles of Trout Creek, a major tributary to Wind River.