Somebody didn't want to pay for the removal/treatment of contaminated silt built up behind the dam. Buffet comes to mind.
Exactly, videotape of excavator operator throwing muck into the river instead of the dump truck to haul to a neutral site...as the contractor was paid to do. Not that a few hundred buckets of muck a day would make that much difference to 2,000 acres of reservoir bed.
Guys, truly, I hope the environmentalists are right....and this all works out well in the end, but given all the factors...international fishing, pinniped protections, Injun netting, years of droughts, ag chemical runoffs...I fear the salmon is going the way of the buffalo.
