A study on the feasibility of removing dams on the Klamath River to help struggling salmon runs is being paid for with federal stimulus money. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation regional office in Sacramento, Calif., said Friday that it has received $4 million to contract the work. The study is due by 2012. It will give the Secretary of Interior the information he needs to decide whether the benefits of removing the four aging hydroelectric dams outweigh the drawbacks. Issues include an engineering analysis of removing the concrete structures, and what happens to the sediment that has built up behind them during the past century...AP
How foolish of me to think this money was to stimulate the economy, when it was really meant to stimulate wildlife populations.
Salmon Si, Gente No.
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