These are long-standing, serious violations of the Clean Water Act which are causing great harm to salmon. Federal dam operators seem to think they are exempt from the Clean Water Act but they are not.
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At some point (the administration) is going to have to face up to the dams. The science leads to the dams and the law leads to the dams.Glen Spain
The crisis over the current situation is a clear indication the river is dying.
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It's a diversionary tactic. The administration has done everything it can ... to avoid dealing with the big issue in the Columbia (Basin), and that is the dams.
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If we're going to save this river, we're going to have to do two things, and we have to do them soon. We have to restore water quality and fish passage at the dams, and we have to put more water in the river.
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A capacity reduction is essential and everyone knows it, not only for protection of the resource itself but for the ability of any single captain to make a living. At present, it simply is not working.
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It's this last option -- the middle ground -- that's the real key.
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