At toxic Montana dam, a river now runs through it
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MILLTOWN, Montana (Reuters) – Engineers breached a hydroelectric dam in Montana on Friday, the first time an American dam was removed to clean up toxic sediments captured behind it from years of mining upriver.
The intent was the restore some of the pristine beauty of the water as portrayed in “A River Runs Through It,” Norman McLean’s classic novel about fly fishing later made into a film directed by Robert Redford.