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In February 1992, the drawdown test on the Snake River upstream of Lower Granite Dam also lowered the end of the Clearwater River. The new shallow water depth exposed the remains of massive Holbrook Island in the Clearwater between the Memorial Bridge and the railroad bridge after it was scraped out of existence when the slackwater levees were built in the mid-1970s.
Tribune/Barry Kough
From left: James Ilhi and Ashley Vermeer, both of Caldwell, along with Dave Bahem and his wife, Annette, both of Homedale, Idaho, fish for steelhead in the Clearwater River on an excursion through Reel Time Fishing out of Lewiston on Friday, Jan. 29, west of Orofino.