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Saturday, September 17, 2011

The Elwha: Travel a river being reborn

Kevin Yancy, a third-generation Bureau of Reclamation employee, inside the powerhouse of Elwha Dam. The last to run the Elwha hydroelectric project, he has since moved on to another job with the bureau in Montana. He loved this project's old equipment, run manually by his crews. The powerhouse had some of the oldest turbines of their type in the country.