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Proposed location for Chehalis River dam
Prime salmon and steelhead spawning and rearing habitat (May 31, 2010)
FEMA map 7-Chehalis-Centralia Airport. Click map for 15 Lewis County FEMA maps (52MB)
Orange = floodway, Yellow = floodplain
SSCS Chehalis Basin Objective 1: Protect human lives, safety, health and property
December 2007 rainstorm claimed six human lives and thousands of livestock
SSCS Chehalis Basin Objective 2: Ensure economic stability
Interstate commerce delayed ($4 million per day) - click on photo for economic impacts and synthesis of Chehalis River basin reports (February, 2008)
SSCS Chehalis Basin Objective 3: Protect and restore Chehalis River basin natural spawning fish
Adult male Coho "silver" salmon in natural habitat - click on photo for Endangered Species Act
SSCS Chehalis Basin Objective 3: Protect and restore Chehalis River basin wildlife
Roosevelt Elk rely year around on a healthy Chehalis River basin.
Chehalis River Basin property damage - Cause 1: Development in the floodplain
Catastrophic floods: 1996, 2007, 2009
Chehalis River Basin property damage - Cause 2: Steep slope clear-cut logging practices
Willapa Hills mass wasting. Photo made available by Natural Settings and LightHawk
SSCS Recommendation: Basinwide - Restored Natural Processes - Immediate Results
Cost-effective, basin-wide restoration of forestlands, floodplains, wetlands. Will put local skilled and unskilled residents to work immediately. (Photo courtesy of Dave Powell, USDA Forest Service, United States) - click on photo for SSCS Resolution 51810
Dam Proponents' Recommendation: Destructive, ineffective, costly, not before 2050
Opposed by SSCS - Two in-channel earthen hydropower dams, each larger than the Skookumchuck Reservoir pictured above, Inundated spawning habitat, no fish passage, impacted downstream water quality, ineffective, cost-prohibitive - click on photo for One Voice website