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The San Clemente Dam – California’s biggest dam removal project in history begins in Carmel Valley

In a project that will be watched by engineers and biologists across the nation, construction crews today will begin a three-year, $84 million project to tear down the hulking landmark — California’s largest dam-removal project ever. The work will open up 25 miles of upstream tributaries and creeks so endangered steelhead trout can return to their historical spawning grounds. continued@thewilletnews

California – Largest dam in state history torn down – Video

MONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) — Monterey County supervisors gave their OK for the largest dam removal project in state history. The San Clemente Dam is eighteen miles from the coast in the Carmel Valley. Joyce Ambrosius with the National Marine Fisheries Service said the steelhead numbers have been dwindling over the last couple of years. “It’s been down to 91 in the last couple of years, where in the 1960’s it was in the thousands of fish. So we are right on the edge of them blinking out here,” she said. continued