Word: damming
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What a classic your article the "Dammed Lousewort" [April 11] was! Imagine the gall of this preposterous plant to halt the construction of a "$668 million hydroelectric project" like the Dickey-Lincoln Dam in Maine. For heaven's sake, the species was thought extinct anyway-let's make it official and drown it under a few billion gallons of water. All this endangered-species-list bit is getting boring...
...reactors and reprocessing equipment to nations that might use them for bombs. He has ordered a halt in domestic development of plutonium as a fuel to reduce the danger that it may be stolen by terrorists. He has abruptly ordered a halt in the construction of major water and dam projects, enraging numerous Congressmen and local politicians...
...AUBURN-FOLSOM PROJECT. The fight over the $1 billion scheme on California's American River provides a case study in the realities of water politics. Governor Jerry Brown, an ardent environmentalist, had campaigned for office as an opponent of new dams, but the severe drought, which has forced some of his Northern California constituents to haul water by the bucket, has changed Brown's mind. When Carter put Auburn-Folsom on his list, Brown came out in favor of the project, which is designed to irrigate 29,000 acres and provide supplemental water to 387,000 more. Brown...
Brown did condition his approval on a finding by non-government experts, due this June, that the Auburn Dam would be safe. The gigantic structure (4,200 ft. wide at its base and 700 ft. high) would be built in an area prone to earthquakes. U.S. Geological Survey scientists say there is a dangerous earthquake fault less than a mile from the proposed site. The Association of Engineering Geologists warned last year that an earthquake could shatter the dam, releasing a reservoir 40 miles long containing 736 billion gallons of water. The terrifying result: a 100 ft. high wall...
...Bureau of Reclamation so bitterly opposed by Shatz is an agency of the Department of the Interior. Founded in 1902 to irrigate the barren West, the bureau has spent $7.6 billion to dam, channel, pump and divert almost anything that flows in that vast region. The bureau's proudest monuments: the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and the Grand Coulee on the Columbia...