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Interior Department recommends removal of dams on Klamath River to aid salmon
(Reuters) The government on Thursday recommended the removal of four hydroelectric uk canada goose dams on the Klamath River in Oregon and buy canada goose jacket cheap California to aid native salmon runs and help resolve Canada Goose Jackets a decades long struggle over allocation of scarce water resources. history is nearing completion in Washington state, concerns a system of dams that straddle the Oregon California canada goose factory sale border.
The proposal to dismantle the dams owned by utility PacifiCorp canada goose coats on sale coincides with a broader push by environmentalists and others to Canada Goose online restore salmon fisheries in canada goose uk shop the Klamath Basin and elsewhere in the nation.
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Removing them would open 420 miles of salmon habitat for the first time in canada goose uk outlet 100 years, eliminate turbines that grind up fish and restore the Klamath River channel, according to the government analysis.
The recommendation stems cheap canada goose uk from a 2010 agreement among canada goose black friday sale competing Klamath Basin water users that called for the government to determine if removing the dams would restore failing salmon runs and lessen conflicts in regional water management.
The Klamath River contains several fish, including canadian goose jacket Coho salmon, on the federal threatened and endangered species list, and repeated droughts in the basin have periodically forced water managers to allocate flows to protected fish rather than to farmers for irrigation.
LEGAL WRANGLING The recommendation, which came in an environmental impact statement released by Interior, follows years of legal wrangling and periods of low flows that saw massive die offs of canada goose coats salmon, shut offs of irrigation districts and tightening of rules for hydroelectric projects that caused them to operate at losses.
The canada goose clearance sale near canada goose clearance collapse canada goose store of Klamath Basin Chinook salmon canada goose led the government in 2006 to severely restrict commercial and sport fishing in the Klamath River and along 700 miles of the California and Oregon coast.
In a statement, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Thursday described the dismantling of the dams as comprehensive solution addressing all coat of the needs of the Klamath Basin, including fisheries, agriculture, refuges and power.
Under the proposal, which must still gain congressional approval, the dams would be removed over 20 months at a cost of $450 cheap Canada Goose million to be garnered from rate payers canada goose uk black friday and bonds.
If buy canada goose jacket the dams were to Canada Goose Parka remain in place, PacifiCorp would incur uk canada goose outlet more than $460 million in costs for relicensing, operation and maintenance of aging structures that have proved unprofitable, the analysis shows.
Glen Spain, regional director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen Associations, said the analysis that dam removal is both feasible and cheaper than any other option. But Klamath County Commissioners have withdrawn their support for taking down the Canada Goose Outlet dams.