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TexasTowelie

(112,252 posts) Mon May 30, 2022, 10:50 AM May 2022

Largest dam removal in US history set to begin in California - Al Jazeera

The largest dam removal operation in US history is due to begin in California.

It is part of a wider trend with almost 60 dams torn down in the past two decades.

Now, after decades of negotiation and bureaucratic delay, the Iron Gate Dam is going to be torn down. The process will take several years and will be the largest dam removal in US history. This latest operation is not just about the environment.

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Largest dam removal in US history set to begin in California - Al Jazeera (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2022 OP

This is great news. Magoo48 May 2022 #1

there are situations where this is totally appropriate stopdiggin May 2022 #2

Magoo48

(4,716 posts)

1. This is great news.

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Mon May 30, 2022, 01:07 PM

May 2022

stopdiggin

(11,317 posts)

2. there are situations where this is totally appropriate

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Mon May 30, 2022, 01:57 PM

May 2022

and probably the right thing. But there are also (crack-brained) proponents for the removal of all dams, barriers, diversions .... Which is just so much eco-utopian horsesh*t. Stop and think for a second ...

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