It's about time. The Capitol Lake is extremely polluted with high levels of e coli, nitrogen, and contaminants. That stuff isn't just in the water itself, it's in the sediment on the bottom. Taking out the dam will allow the River to flush into the Sound. That's not desirable but had the Deschutes not been dammed into a lake it wouldn't have filled up in the first place. But having seen what the Elbe did after dam removal, after seeing how Beatty Creek restored itself after dam removal, I can tell you that it won't take the River long to set things right. Give her a chance to make things right and Mother will do it without too much help.
The whole purpose of the Lake was to make a pretty reflecting pool for the Capitol building. That's it. No one cared about the ecological ramifications. Now we will pay the price but in the long run, it was meant to be an estuary and to an estuary it must return.
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