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Column: Past time to go – Other dams razed, why not deadly Dennett

Posted by: Maven on March 18, 2010 at 5:00 am

From the Modesto Bee, this column by Jeff Jardine:

“Everywhere else in the country, it seems, they’re tearing out dams. Big dams. Little dams. Medium-sized dams. Dams built more than a century ago that have long since outlived their purpose and usefulness. Dams that might still produce hydroelectric power but destroy fish populations.

About 800 have disappeared so far, with more ready to go.

In Washington state, they’re getting ready to take out two dams at once on the Elwha River. One is 200 feet high, the other 105 feet high. And on the Klamath River in Oregon and California, four dams will disappear in the largest removal project in history. They’ll all be gone by 2020, according to an agreement reached last year.

Yet in Modesto, the tiny but deadly Dennett Dam remains — or at least the remains of the Dennett Dam remain in the Tuolumne River. … “

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March 18, 2010 · Filed Under San Joaquin Valley

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