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Part of a dam on the west side of Washington is being removed.

This after the 9th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court decision.

Electron Dam is in Pierce County on the Puyallup River.

A temporary spillway will be taken out.

The dam is 120 years old, and the spillway went in just a couple of years ago.

Now the courts have ruled that spillway completely blocks fish trying to make their way through.

Three fish that are considered threatened under the Endangered Species Act are some of those: chinook, steelhead and bull trout.

We talked to an environmental attorney for the Puyallup Tribe of Indians.

She says she's pleased with the court's decision.

“...But it's the first step.

If they still continue to plan to operate and construct the proposals that we've seen so far, there are a lot of issues to handle and to be taken care of, and we're going to continue to fight and to monitor that.” Once that spillway is taken out, there will be a free flowing channel on part of the river for the first time since the dam was built back in 1904.

Move over Cosmic Crisp, WSUs newest apple is here, but its name is still up in the air.

The new apple is a cross between a Honeycrisp and a Pink Lady.

Washington State University's College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences is the lead on this new apple.

Right now it's called WA-64.

Stakeholders are waiting on feedback from focus groups to decide from a list of five.

WSU plans to announce the new Apple name by the end of the year.

To find out what the options are and drop us a line telling us what you would pick, head to our Instagram page.

It's @NWPBroadcasting.

Now to Mount St. Helens.

The famous Washington volcano served as base camp for a group of girls from all over the Northwest, learning all about the vast field of geology.

The US Geological Survey hosts the weeklong GeoGirls camp in conjunction with Mount St. Helens Institute.

It's a weeklong camp with an all female staff, from cooks to cartographers.

“We want them to feel comfortable that they can achieve those roles, that it's not just some roles that they might feel like that's all that's available to them, that know that actually it's much broader than the world is much bigger than that.” And now to Wenatchee, where you can hit the beach on three wheels.

Lake Wenatchee State Park now has a beach wheelchair for people that can be reserved for free for people with limited mobility.

It's thanks to a community partnership grant from Confluence Health and the Wenatchee Valley Medical Group.

Learn all about it and check out the details on reserving it at NWPB.org.

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I'm Tracci Dial with your NWPB Weekly News Now.

Thanks for joining us.