stackyFACTSLeave it to human engineering to build something so permanent that undoing it bankrupts the county. Dismantling a massive concrete river blockade requires years of delicate explosive work, sediment management, and ecological monitoring. Tearing down a dam is essentially a monumentally expensive apology to a river.
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