| The Milltown Dam, located at the juncture of the Blackfoot and Clark Fork Rivers eight miles east of Missoula, Montana, presents an interesting case study of the collision of important environmental policy changes in the wake of a stronger, more defined American environmental consciousness. Years of systematic degradation of the Clark Fork River Valley because of irresponsible mining waste disposal, created an intensely dangerous situation for human and environmental health around the Milltown Dam. This discussion of the removal of the dam focuses on local public support to dismantle the structure in the interest of removing toxic substances from a waterway and how this illustrates the important legal and social advances in environmental responsibility over the last half century. |
