Residents gathered Tuesday night at the Akron-Summit County Public Library auditorium for an update on the long-running Gorge Dam removal project along the Cuyahoga River, as officials outlined progress on a decades-long effort to restore the river to a free-flowing state.
The project aims to reverse more than a century of environmental disruption by removing contaminated sediment, a process taking more than two years because of its massive scope.
Mike Johnson, chief of conservation at Summit Metro Parks, said the effort is intended to bring long-term ecological and community benefits…