By the Jefferson Exchange Team | July 10, 2024 | Jefferson Public Radio
By one person’s description, Evans Creek went from “a hot bathtub to a flowing stream.” The key was the removal of a dam, more than a century old, 100 feet long, and six feet high. Evans Creek is a Rogue River tributary and important spawning habitat for fish.
The removal of Williams-Whalen Dam was the third such removal from just Evans Creek in the last couple of years, carried out in part through the efforts of WaterWatch of Oregon and the Rogue River Watershed Council (RRWC). We caught up with those groups on their stream restoration work, in the persons of Jim McCarthy from WaterWatch and Brian Barr from RRWC.
The Jefferson Exchange is Jefferson Public Radio’s daily news program focused on issues, people and events across Southern Oregon and Northern California. Angela Decker is the program’s senior producer, Charlie Zimmermann is the assistant producer, and Geoffrey Riley hosts the show.
Click here to go to the JPR website to hear the conversation with Jim and Brian.
This program originally aired on Jefferson Public Radio on July 10, 2024.