Milltown Dam to be Breached Friday

By Matthew Frank, 3-27-08

	Caption: An excavator removes the remnants of the earthen berm holding back water from the Blackfoot River. Photo by Emily Haas

Tomorrow the Milltown Dam will be breached and the Clark Fork and Blackfoot Rivers will flow free for the first time in 100 years. It’s scheduled to happen around 11:30 a.m.

“Initially there will be a bit of a surge. It’s not like a wave. It’s like a tide,” Envirocon engineer Ben Johnson said last week.

The Clark Fork Coalition Website has a map to the Milltown Bluff Overlook (here) from which the breaching can be viewed. (The Coalition also has a neat time lapse video of progress on the dam deconstruction.)

For more general information on the breaching of the Milltown Dam click here for today’s press release from the EPA.

Check back with NewWest.Net tomorrow for coverage.