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DAM-L wshington post on impact/cost of decommissioning



From:           	"Jim Chambers" <j.chambers@erols.com>
To:             	"Dianne Murray" <dianne@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
Subject:        	Fw:      Dams
Date sent:      	Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:03:32 -0500


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Bill Bartlett 
To: FISHFOLK@MITVMA.MIT.EDU 
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 5:51 PM
Subject: Dams


Thought this may be of interest to some.  The rest of the article can be
viewed at:
http://washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A44823-2000Dec8?language=printer 

Restoring Rivers--At a High Price 

By William Booth
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday , December 10, 2000 ; Page A03 


VENTURA, Calif. –– It was not too long ago that the call to dismantle
thousands of the nation's dams, and thereby return rivers to their natural
ways, was considered radical, unrealistic or downright un-American.

Yet today the dam-removal movement has entered the mainstream of public
opinion, gaining enough support that policymakers seriously are
considering pulling down hundreds of dams.

States such as Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are already far along in
dam-removal efforts. In the past eight years, more than 200 dams have been
dismantled, and the pace appears to be accelerating since the
deconstruction of the Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River in Maine last year
and the amazing return of millions of alewife to their ancestral waters.