This has been in the works for a long time, but has stalled out in the past. It looks like they’ve finally gotten everything together to be able to submit a real plan and actually move forward with it.
Warren Buffet even comes across as a reasonable and well-intentioned guy:
We did have a previous thread on this, but I felt it was old enough that a new one was warranted.
Any Dopers gonna be impacted by this? Waddaya think about it?
As somebody who loves fresh salmon, I welcome the removal of the dam.
Another pro-salmon vote here. Especially if the local catch here in southern Oregon benefits.
I’m all for it. It wouldn’t impact me directly, those dams are a 6 hour drive north of me in the SFBA.
According to this redding.com article from July, https://is.gd/lLTv6e, the four dams are, from upriver to downriver (these names are how they can be found in Google maps):
John C. Boyle Dam, Keno OR
Copco Dam, Hornbrook CA
Copco Number 2 Dam, Hornbrook CA
Iron Gate Dam, Hornbrook CA
The two Copco dams are very close together. The first one is called Copco 1, but that’s not how it’s identified in Google maps.
This Google map, https://is.gd/8Arfw6, links the four dams from upriver in the northeast to downriver in the southwest.
Finally, for whenever these dams are destroyed, I tried capturing the lat/long coordinates of a spot near each dam that should (by my eye) still be there after the demolitions. These are maps of each dam and lat/longs from Google maps. I hope that’ll be accurate enough?
https://is.gd/ixZRgF < 42.121208, -122.048031, John C. Boyle Dam, Keno OR
https://is.gd/j47I4C < 41.980584, -122.336175, Copco Dam, Hornbrook CA
https://is.gd/sVzTsL < 41.980010, -122.339705, Copco Number 2 Dam, Hornbrook CA
https://is.gd/1HeKDs < 41.935053, -122.432016, Iron Gate Dam, Hornbrook CA
Not that I’m going to do it, but it would be cool to drive by them before, and after, to compare the vistas there.
Finally, I created the shortened URLs and they are safe.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Not a second sooner.
Got a notice from Discourse about this thread. Apparently because of the link to a thread I started years ago.
I don’t live too close to this area, so not a real impact on me, but I’m for it. I live closer to the four dams on the lower Snake River and would like to see their removal to help salmon populations rebound which will help orcas, as well as make some awesome stretches of free-flowing river:
I subscribe to the Spokesman Review, and there have been other recent dam removal articles. These two seem like no-brainers…just need to find the means to get them removed:
This is really big news for the Klamath Tribe. We watched a documentary recently about these tribal lands and the impact that the dams have had on the Native way of life.
But after more than two decades of persistent efforts, including protests at company shareholder meetings, demonstrations on the river and complicated negotiations, the four dams along the California-Oregon border have finally started to be dismantled.
One small dam has already been removed, and three more are slated to come down next year.
Great news: Over 6000 salmon have migrated past the site of the Iron Gate Dam since the Klamath dams were removed. Iron Gate was the dam furthest downstream.
https://caltrout.org/news/thousands-of-salmon-return-home-to-the-klamath