Our family lived below Chester Morse Dam and Reservoir for nearly forty years. It was all it was "cracked" up to be...repeated floods and evacuations, constant fear of the Pineapple Express, worry about dam failure, erosion, levy destruction from flood events, and neglected maintenance of those levies. Scouring flows occurred regularly; fish runs tanked. Most of these concerns followed years of extreme clear cutting, including logging of sensitive sites, in the Cedar River watershed. Down stream development helped create runoff flows that could no longer be controlled. In the end, numerous agencies participated in a buyout of our entire neighborhood.

That project is detailed in this video: https://vimeo.com/111058132

Hopefully, the QIN, Chehalis, and Thurston County authorities will just say, "NO DAM IT!"