Talk:Restoration of the Elwha River

controversy
A third of a BILLION dollar for fish. Are you serious? Nearly $1000 PER FISH. Slade Gorton wrestled valiantly for years against this boondoggle, but finally lost his office (barely) to Cantwell. Too bad for the taxpayers. Kmote (talk) 22:19, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, if the fish go extinct, would that be an infinite number of dollars per fish. I'm not sure this math works.  Besides, there are also other positives mentioned in the article, not least reduction in ongoing costs. But this is not really a discussion forum. -- Beland (talk) 23:48, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Improve
As dam removal is about to start, this page should be updated, improved, copyedited, etc. I began to add citations and copyedit the text. Will try to get to more of it soon. Pfly (talk) 08:29, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I finished, more or less, adding citations and doing general copyeditting. The main things that still seem like they'd be useful include a better method of breaking the page up into sections. The current sections seem a bit random. The lead ought to be expanded. Also, more should be said about recently developments. The new fish hatchery is up and running, and generating some local controversy over whether and how much the restored river will be "seeded" with hatchery fish or allowed to be recolonized by wild fish. The page is a bit vague about when the dams are to be removed, but I think the schedule is much more solid now. I think removal is to begin in September 2011—very soon! More could be said about the way the dams are going to be removed and the sediments dealt with. Finally, as these things begin to happen, the page ought to be updated with new information. At least future tense should be changed to past tense as particular things are done. It might be interesting to watch (from afar at least) the process as it progresses. There's Elwha River Sediment Monitoring - Web Cams up and running, for example. Pfly (talk) 07:34, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Replacement of hydropower
Will this project reduce the amount of hydropower or renewable power in general available to the Western grid, or is there some plan for replacement like with non-dam turbines? -- Beland (talk) 23:42, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

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Requested move 16 May 2020

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: page moved. Andrewa (talk) 18:19, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Elwha Ecosystem Restoration → Restoration of the Elwha River – Per WP:NATURALNESS and WP:COMMONNAME. "Elwha Ecosystem Restoration" is a clunky, rarely used project title. Google search returns 1,640 results for "Elwha ecosystem restoration" and 20,500 results for "restoration of the Elwha River". Furthermore, in addition to being less clunky, the suggested new title is more in line with Wikipedia's title conventions than the current name. CJK09 (talk) 07:28, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Support as per norms. ~Amkgp ✉  15:30, 16 May 2020 (UTC)


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