Gold Ray Dam on the Rogue River, Oregon

[Lamplighter]

The Rogue River is famous but probably not many have heard of the relatively small but important Gold Ray Dam.
It was built around 1904 and has blocked wild salmon from migrating up the Rogue ever since.

After years of negotiation a contract was let to remove the dam to give free passage again.
They built a coffer dam to allow heavy equipment to access the dam.
But Oooops, the coffer dam suddenly gave way !
No one was injured, but for a while 3 workers were stranded along with one major piece of equipment.

Now the Rogue is again a "wild and free running river.

The coffer dam break is shown on the right side of the middle pic
If you are interested in more pics of the event, here are 3 links.

The iFish thread has the most pics, but Facebook is the easiest to access.
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