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Posted on 09/03/2024 2:26:29 PM PDT by Twotone
The largest dam removal project in US history is finally complete, after crews last week demolished the last of the four dams on the Klamath River. It’s a significant win for tribal nations on the Oregon-California border who for decades have fought to restore the river back to its natural state.
The removal of the four hydroelectric dams — Iron Gate Dam, Copco Dams 1 and 2, and JC Boyle Dam — allows the region’s iconic salmon population to swim freely along the Klamath River and its tributaries, which the species have not been able to do for over a century since the dams were built.
Mark Bransom, chief executive officer of the Klamath River Renewal Corporation, the nonprofit group created to oversee the project, said it was a “celebratory moment,” as his staff members, conservationists, government officials and tribal members gathered and cheered on the bank of the river near where the largest of the dams, Iron Gate, once stood.
Federal regulators approved the plan to raze the dams in 2022. The next year, the smallest of the four dams, Copco No. 2, was removed. Crews then began releasing water from the dams’ reservoirs at the beginning of this year, which was necessary before dismantling the last remaining dams.
The river system has been steeped in controversy: During the recent historic Western drought that dried up the Klamath Basin, an intense water war pitted local farmers against Indigenous tribes, government agencies and conservationists.
But anxiety turned to joy for the Indigenous people who have lived for centuries among the Klamath and its tributaries.
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I hope the dam engineers didn’t screw it up.
Gonna take decades for that river to clean itself out.
In the mean time, thousands of farmers have had their livelihoods taken without compensation.
Is anyone else fed up with these eco freaks?!
SLM
Salmon Lives Matter
As I recall, salmon swim back inland from the sea to spawn in the same rivers and tributaries where they were hatched...so if it's been over a century since they've been able to swim there, what are the odds any salmon living today will even go there?
Dam big job.
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘢𝘮 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘜𝘚 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦...
About dam time!
Hopium ... down river is contaminated, silted, and will kill all the fish.
Cheap, clean abundant electricity. No more.
Not to mention messing up our electrical system.
A group of mine owners sued fish and game (wildlife) in a takings case when they banned dredging. They settled rather than loose. James Buchal made the case for us.
http://www.buchal.com/hoax.html
dam it...
A group of mine owners sued fish and game (wildlife) in a takings case when they banned dredging. They settled rather than loose. James Buchal made the case for us.
http://www.buchal.com/hoax.html
I knew that nuclear, coal, and oil were evil. I guess I lost the memo that said hydroelectric is evil too.
Did I miss anything?
Not just farmers.. every home there, like the one I gave my family is worthless! Our lives are destroyed.
This regime has taken everything I ever had.
Yeah. So I guess Climate Change is no longer a thing. About time.
Unintended consequences coming right up.
The KILLING of millions of Salmon wasn’t easy, whew!
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