(75 quotes found)
“I don't know of any other dam built since then ? that big.”
Dan Netto
“I think the dam is still in good condition. But I know standards have changed in the last 75 years.”
Guy McBride
“The Mississippi doesn't carry as much sediment as it used to. There's something like 1,300, 1,400 dams on the Mississippi. All that sediment is being trapped behind those dams. In the long-term scheme of things, we're going to have to reactivate that sediment.”
Harry Roberts
“It's not as potentially bleak as you might think by just looking at the dam counts.”
Steve Williams
“Without the dams, we would be in a lot worse shape.”
Heidi Helwig
“It's the least cost-efficient dam project we could look at. We've almost fully developed the San Joaquin and take something like 98 percent of its water to the point where it usually does not flow anymore.”
Steve Evans
“The next rain may breach the dam of the silt fence toward the Still River. That is what we're concerned about.”
Jack Kozuchowski
“protected a fair number of trout streams against dam proposals and things like that.”
Robert McConnell
“This is a wake up call to the region that there is no easy way out. Alternatives to dam removal may be both more economically painful than dam removal and less effective.”
Rob Masonis
“Somewhere in the system you need to make significant changes. If the dams are not removed, we may well be forced to acquire 1 million acre-feet of water from Southern Idaho irrigators, taking up to 643,000 acres of land out of production, eliminating more than 6,500 jobs and eliminating as much as $430 million in income.”
