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Bring down the dams?
The Times-Standard
11/13/2006 04:29:49 AM PST
Supes consider Klamath River declaration
EUREKA -- On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors may make their strongest statement yet on the possible removal of four dams on the Klamath River.
The board will consider a resolution calling for the removal of the Iron Gate, Copco 1, Copco 2 and J.C. Boyle dams on the Klamath River. The resolution was brought to the board by the Northcoast Environmental Center.
Many coastal interests want to see the dams considered for removal to help Klamth salmon stocks recover.
”The relicensing process on four Klamath River dams is currently in process with written comments on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the Klamath Hydroelectric Project due no later than Dec. 1,” said a county staff report. “The current impact report fails to consider removal of the four dams and proposes an insupportable solution of trapping fish and driving them around the dams.”
