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Rapid WA

Proposed Upper Chehalis Dam

Chehalis - 1 - West Fork to Pe Ell (WA)

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Gauge Conditions

Chehalis River near Doty, WA Downstream Primary

Runnable: 500.0 – 3,500.0 CFS

Data from American Whitewater & USGS

Photo

Photo courtesy of American Whitewater

Description

In Feb 2009 Lewis County PUD released a draft study for a water retention facility and hydropower project with a dam that would innundate a 9.6 mile portion of this run. Various iterations of this proposed dam have continued to persist.