Government originally planned to remove the Elwha and Glines Dams in Washington, the enormous expense of removal has resulted in a postponement of this effort.

政府原本计划拆除华盛顿的艾尔瓦和格莱恩斯大坝，但巨大的拆除费用导致这一计划被推迟。

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Map from Google Maps, with "A" marking the location of the Elwha River dams.

地图来自谷歌地图，标记A为尔瓦河堤。

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Some, like the two Elwha dams, were built without fish ladders, meaning they serve as completely impenetrable barriers to fish migrations.

一些大坝和这两座埃尔瓦河大坝一样在建造的时候缺乏鱼梯设计，就是说它们完全阻碍了鱼群的洄游。

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But if the Elwha dams come out, and that successfully restores salmon runs, it could open the floodgates for similar projects.

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Mere chat about the Elwha project already seems to have emboldened foes of dams on the Snake river in Washington state and Idaho.

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Yet noble intentions do not, of themselves, move concrete, even rotting concrete like the cement-and-pine-cone slurry used to make the Elwha Dam, the first of the two structures to be built.

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