Bill gives rafting preference over hydropower

Mountain Democrat ^ | Friday, April 19, 2002 | By EDMOND JACOBY

[Helix]

BUMP.Thanks for posting this.

[jimtorr]

Many of these dams are capable of sending a five foot wall of water

All of these dams are also capable of drying up the river bed entirely below the dam. Though personally I've never seen a five foot wall of water below a dam, what a dam is capable of doing is not at question. What is at question is, what's a more important use of a resevoir in a drought year; providing plenty of water for rafters, or holding back water to generate electricity?

[hedgetrimmer]

Thanks for the bump.

I spent most my summers rafting and swimming the American river when I was a kid. The dams and fish ladders didn't bother us at all. In fact we had a totally different view of things when I was a kid. Our view was that there could be multiple uses of public lands and resources, no problem. And everybody got along just fine, thankyou very much.