[Some hope remaining.]

Anyway on a more serious note, this article prods a memory to surface from the dark recesses of my brain.

I seem to remember that a few years ago they (whoever they might be) were convinced to try an experiment with one of the dams on the Colorado River, maybe Lake Powell but I don't remember for sure. Anyway, the idea was to open the spillways for a few hours or days to mimic the natural flooding cycle that used to occur before the dams.

One of the expected benefits was that a lot of the silt that had been trapped by the dam would be let back into the river to replenish some areas downstream that had gotten too "clean" and the new silt would help the plants and animals.

I guess you've got to manage your silt very carefully.

[Carry_Okie]

Erosion is a dynamic flow. For humans to coexist in urbanized habitat, it must be managed. We don't understand it very well. Government that derives power by control is the wrong architecture to do the job.

In my book, Natural Process: That Environmental Laws May Serve the Laws of Nature, I propose a silt market and show how it might work.