Relevant documents and media files pertaining to the Middle Fork Nooksack River Fish Passage Project can be found below.
Effectiveness Monitoring and Adaptive Management Documents
- Middle Fork Nooksack Fish Passage Project Effectiveness Monitoring and Adaptive Management Plan – Draft Final, April 20, 2020 (0.5MB)
- Effectiveness Monitoring Reports:
Additional Documents
- Middle Fork Project Fact Sheet (PDF) (0.5 MB)
- Alternatives Analysis and Conceptual Design Report (PDF) (31MB)
Media Produced by Project Partners
- Dam Removal Brings Hope for Salmon in Washington’s Middle Fork Nooksack River – NOAA Fisheries article
- Restoring a River of Life – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service storymap
- Middle Fork Nooksack River Fish Passage Project Begins – City of Bellingham press release
Media Coverage
- Bang! Watch a Nooksack River Dam Finally Coming Down, Freeing Miles for Fish Habitat– Seattle Times article
- Free-flowing Middle Fork Nooksack River Just Months Away, After First Blast in Dam Removal – KNKX article and recording
- Nooksack Dam Removal Begins – Video on KGMI
- Washington Dam is Being Removed After Decades-Long Battle – EcoWatch article
- Dam Removal Under Way to Reopen Fish Habitat – Radio Pacific, Inc. article
- A Dam Comes Down – and Tribes, Cities, Salmon and Orcas Could All Benefit – The Revelator article
- Bellingham Diversion Dam Being Removed to Help These Imperiled Pacific Northwest Icons – Bellingham Herald article
- Blasting Begins on Middle Fork Nooksack Dam to Restore Salmon Habitat– King5 News article
- Washington River Dam Demolished to Open Miles of Salmon Habitat – Q13 FOX article
- WA Dam Removal Brings Hope for NW Fish, Orcas – Public News Service article
- State Invests $45 Million in Puget Sound Salmon, Habitat – Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office press release
- Dam Projects on Washington Rivers Will Restore Miles of Salmon Habitat – King 5 story
- ‘Removing the Middle Fork Nooksack Dam is one of the Most Important Salmon Restoration Projects’ – Bellingham Herald article
- Bellingham to Remove Dam for Salmon Restoration Project - Q13 FOX article
- Help Save the Orcas? Tear Down the Nooksack Dam – Op-ed piece by Washington State Representative Sharon Shewmake
- What Will Whatcom County see out of the State’s New $4.9 billion Capital Budget? – Bellingham Herald article
- Middle Fork Diversion Dam – Whatcom Watch article
- Nineteen New Coastal and Marine Habitat Restoration Projects Recommended for 2019 NOAA Funding – NOAA Fisheries article
Contacts
Steve Day, P.E.
Project Engineer
City of Bellingham Public Works
(360) 778-7944
smday@cob.org
April McEwen
River Restoration Project Manager
American Rivers
amcewen@americanrivers.org
For media inquiries, contact
Riley Grant
Environmental Education Coordinator
(360) 778-7732
ragrant@cob.org
