Dam Builder Tries New Role: Dam Breaker

NY Times ^ | September 22, 2004 | IAN URBINA

[neverdem]

Tara Engberg for The New York Times
Evan Obrien, a park visitor in Cuddebackville, N.Y., looking at a dam that is being taken apart so that the dwarf wedgemussel, an endangered species, can go upstream. The Nature Conservancy and the Army Corps of Engineers are handling the project.

Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company

[al baby]

What did the fish say when it hit the concrete?

[al baby]

DAM

[camle]

it's a lot more fun if ya blast!

[Constitution Day]

[bikepacker67]

Piece by piece, a team of engineers from the Nature Conservancy and the Army Corps of Engineers will begin removing major parts of the Cuddebackville Dam on the Neversink River as part of a painstaking effort to save an endangered mussel that is blocked by the dam from going upstream.

I have a better idea:

[neverdem]

Let me know if you want on or off my New York ping list.

[Fierce Allegiance]

The Army Corps has done this several times in the past. The one I remember was East Machias, Maine.

[nightdriver]

"Many states are starting to realize that river restoration starts with dam removal since that is the only way to open the flow to aquatic life."

Yeah, well, it opens the flow to floods, too.

This is one of the typical off-the-wall reasons for eliminating dams that has been perpetrated by the loony left.

If the "endangered mussels" were carried upstream by fish anyway, a fish ladder would do as much as taking out the entire dam.

[camle]

i tend to agree.

[bikepacker67]

If a private cantractor was hired to blow a dozen holes in the dam, it would cost five thousand or less.

Ohh, but where would be the nepotic kickback fun in that?

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[Liberty Valance]

Why not let the 10th Mountain Div. get some practice in and blow that thing on an afternoon exercise?

[Redbob]

So let me see if I got this straight:

The dam has been there for 90 years, but this mussel or whatever is just now endangered?

And getting rid of the dam is going to unendanger it?
Something fishy going on here...

[Diddle E. Squat]

"I want mussels!" - Dianna Ross

[motherof 3]

Environmentalist are trying to take the dams out where I live. Their slogan is "let the river run free" like the river's rights have been violated. When they take the dam out the river will narrow and there will be mud flats. The city then takes this land and makes it public. If you are living on the river or have a business on the river your front yard is now public. You have a bike path or trail in your yard.

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

Well with these idiots realise that mankind is nature. We're no different from beavers building a dam to suit their own purposes.

[farmfriend]

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I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[B4Ranch]

The idea of gathering and depositing a ton or so of mussels upstream never occurs to the Nature Conservancy or the Army Corps of Engineers. Too simple