Posted on 09/30/2009 7:54:18 AM PDT by SmithL
In what is being touted as the world's biggest dam-removal project, an agreement was reached Tuesday to remove four dams on the Klamath River and restore a 300-mile migratory route for California's beleaguered salmon.
The tentative agreement was reached after a decade of negotiations among 28 parties, including American Indian tribes, farmers, fishermen and the hydroelectric company that operates the dams and distributes the water. The plan would set in motion one of the most ambitious efforts in U.S. history to restore the habitat of a federally protected species if it receives final approval by the parties in December, as expected.
The dams - Iron Gate, Copco 1, Copco 2 and J.C. Boyle - have blocked salmon migration for a century along the California-Oregon border and have been blamed for much of the historic decline of chinook and coho salmon and steelhead trout in the Klamath. Under the plan, the dams operated by the utility, PacificCorp, would be dismantled beginning in 2020.
The ultimate goal of the so-called Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement is to restore what has historically been the third-largest source of salmon in the lower 48 states, behind the Columbia and Sacramento rivers. Chinook once swam all the way up to Upper Klamath Lake in Oregon, providing crucial sustenance to American Indians, including the Yurok, Karuk, Klamath and Hoopa Valley tribes.
"This is the deal that we have all been working on for 10 years," said Steve Rothert, the California director of American Rivers, a national nonprofit river conservation group. "There were a lot of people who didn't think we could do this, and some groups that worked actively to prevent it. It's fantastic that we've reached this spot."
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As I see it, there's only one problem with your analysis. Hundreds of seals, sea lions and otters will die due to ingesting those batteries when they eat those salmon.
Or with our "policies" governing streams and "endangered species"? Central Valley is now a dustbowl to the double benefit of China.
I think that’s a great idea, provided that they open up a nuclear power plant to replace the energy that we would stop producing. Oh, they’re not planning on building a new nuclear power plant? Well, I guess they can all go to sleep when the sun goes down and not have any electrical appliances. But they’ll have plenty of fish to cook over the fire.
It is my understanding that there is a stand of redwoods in New Mexico that has trees that best many in California. It's not well publicized because the folks there don't want the traffic to the area.
If I can find something on it, I'll post a link.
Reason 1A why global warming is BS.
This doesn’t really bode well for the 4 dams on the lower Snake here in Idaho that have also been targeted to save a stupid (and tasty might I add) fish.
If you wrote this as the plot of a book in 1950, people would say you were off your rocker....................
If the fish is so tasty, why isn’t it farmed?................
Apparently they work very well.
I wonder which hut Nancy will pick? The bike reminds of Pee Wees Great Adventure.
I do not agree with this foolishness, because the deal (which was talked about by the government some time ago) talks about finding other renewable sources for the energy.
The cheapest, most efficient, renewable energy is already in place with those dams and they now intend to take it out, eroding electircal production in that area on the unspecified, liberal promise of "something" in the future.
So, from an energy standpoint, it is very bad policy.
From an irigation standpoint, it will probably put more pressure on Klamath Lake to provide what is deemed the water necessary to meet the environmental/salmon needs. But the farmers in the Klamath Basin have been involved in the negotiations to try and ensure their needs are met and committed to.
In 2001 they did not have that capability, and those events dealt directly with their water in their lake Lake. These dams are all well below them and much more directed at electrical production.
We can replace them with coal-fired plants.
A little over eight years ago there was talk of Klamath Falls being Lexington Green West.
9/11 made the farmers and their supporters back off out of concern for our Republic. Meanwhile enviro wacko rabble continued on destroying 100 years of farm families and not caring one whit about the Republic?
Near Yreka the rive is in a very deep canyon. If it floods Noah has returned.
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Thanks, that is a good response.
See my post 32.
I don’t know about fish ladders, but there is a dam on the Columbia River, Bonneville Dam I believe, that has a very effective system for allowing salmon to get upstream. I don’t know why that could not be added to the dams in question.
Better fire up that dirty Coal plant. Morons.
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