Marine life on the Colville? It remains frozen to the bottom 9 months out of the year, empties out into a bay only 20 feet deep for hundreds of square miles, and the “bird life” they claim solely relies on it, only live there for 3 months out of every year.
Bridges would not harm the runs of Char in any way and would actually help to attract them as have all the other bridges over other rivers in the area.
The Obama Corpse of Engineers is purely in line with the EPA and dictating unreasonable policy like they always have.
You and I both know that a bridge over the Coleville will open up a direct route to ANWR, only 25 miles away and cannot even be considered.
The Colville river never completely freezes. I have personally rode across the ice bridge used to cross it. The permafrost starts deeper because of the constant river heat.
This is a route into NPRA, not ANWR.
I do agree it would do no harm and the proposal to take three phase fluid below the river has more potential for spills than the bridge.