‘Undamming the Elwha’ to air Sunday on KCTS 9

Published 12:01 am Friday, April 20, 2012

SEATTLE — “Undamming the Elwha,” a half-hour documentary on the $325 million project to return the Elwha River to its wild state, will air Sunday.

The program will air on KCTS 9 at 1:30 a.m., 5 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.

Its first showing was Wednesday night.

Filmmakers Katie Campbell and Michael Werner created the documentary about the removal of the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams from the 45-mile-long river that flows from the heart of the Olympic Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

The dams, built nearly a century ago, blocked fish passage. Their removal is intended to restore legendary salmon runs.

Elwha Dam demolition has been completed, while work continues on Glines Canyon Dam.

“What they’re doing on the Elwha will be the model for removing hundreds of other crumbling dams across the nation,” said Campbell, a journalist with KCTS and part of EarthFix, a public media partnership of Pacific Northwest stations focused on telling stories on environmental issues.

Werner, a former journalism professor at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, specializes in documentary filmmaking and narrative writing.

For more information, visit www.kcts9.org.