As California dam removal hits final stage, river flows freely for first time in a century

SF Gate ^ | August 31, 2024 | By Sam Mauhay-Moore

[curious7]

Well, there goes their flood-control capability. When it happens I wonder if they’ll be able to connect the dots?

[Carry_Okie]

Get rid of farming and move in developers.

Yeah, that'll work.

[ComputerGuy]

...our sacred duty...

[Redleg Duke]

And when the tribes start bellyaching about brownouts and high energy costs…

[Jan_Sobieski]

Reservoirs are evil. Desert 🏜️ 🌵 🐪 is good

[jeffersondem]

Did the dams have any hydro-electric capacity?

[TalBlack]

Hope they don’t find out that nature is a bitch… But they probably will.

[buwaya]

Last was 169MW generating capacity, but it was several times more before generation was taken offline in previous years.

[LuxAerterna]

Only a fool and a stooge really believes this scheme was pushed by Native American tribes.

[brookwood]

” flows caused tens of thousands of the river’s fish, mostly Chinook salmon, to die in a massive fish kill in 2002. For thousands of years, Chinook salmon have been a fundamental source of physical, spiritual and economic sustenance to tribal communities throughout the Klamath Basin. “
I’m not sure how they know what the Chinook Salmon population in the Klamath basin was 1000 years ago. They just make this stuff up. I would bet there were fish kills there many times prior to 2002, for a variety of reasons, and that the fish recovered completely from the supposed 2002 fish kill.

[hal ogen]

Doesn’t releasing this water cause the ocean to “rise”? Are these greenie losers trying to drown the fish or something???

[Nervous Tick]

>> When it happens I wonder if they’ll be able to connect the dots?

Of course not. Fools gotta fool.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Unless the people who built the dams all went away and everything is as it was before they all showed up, this doesn’t appear to be a good idea.

[BroJoeK]

curious7: "Well, there goes their flood-control capability.
When it happens I wonder if they’ll be able to connect the dots?"

Four lower hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River were removed.
The two upper flood-control dams remain in place and are not planned for removal.

The river basin is generally wilderness and looks like the photo at right:

[2nd Amendment]

This is cool! When can we get rid of Hoover Dam and all the others. The Indians can reclaim mother earth!

[Bob434]

Dinosaur facts were killing off the fish by causing rising temperatures, but then a massive asteroid hit the earth and killed off the dinosaurs, and the fish thrived, until cows began farming in unison on ranches all across the globe /s

[Bob434]

Geese, dino farts and cow farts I meant- dang autocorrect

[BroJoeK]

buwaya: "Last was 169MW generating capacity, but it was several times more before generation was taken offline in previous years."

The numbers I found for the four removed dams are:

Hatchet Ridge Wind Farm
~100 miles away:

1. 80 MW -- Boyce
2. 20 MW -- Copco 1
3. 27 MW -- Copco 2
4. 18 MW -- Iron Gate

   145 MW total removed = roughly enough for 100,000 homes.

California's total electric generating capacity is about 80,000 MW from 1,500 power plants.

• The Klamath natural gas electric power plant generates 500 MW.

• The nearby Hatchet River Wind Farm has a capacity of 101 MW... ah, if the wind is blowing.

• Likewise, there is said to be significant solar power generation, though I could find no total numbers on that.

So, by all appearances, the four Klamath River dams are a drop in the overall electric generation bucket.

[Organic Panic]

Most of that water was flood control and irrigation.

The Injuns will still complain for freebies. It is a profitable industry and they are little more than tokens for the democrats.