Flowing Forward: Klamath Dam Removal and Paddle Tribal Waters

[@TheAdrenalineRush]

Thanks for all the work you do AW!

[@Mr-lp7ov]

It rains so much in this area that the Klamath will be back in no time.

[@williamwhitaker9807]

The sediment issue is temporary. It was always going to be that way. Otherwise it would be thousands of trucks over many months taking out the build-up. Complaining about a thing that has loomed on the horizon for decades is just ...smh. Looking forward to a free river.

[@georgehaydukeiii6396]

This sort of thing gives me hope, in some pretty rough times.

[@matthew3136]

All water rights need to be cancelled and resubmitted. Nobody should have grandfathered water rights knowing how unfair and inaccurate the flows were measured originally. Water is a public resource and should never be privatized.

[@PNWJEEPER01]

There's a whole lot of hand wringing being done by people who relied on the reservoirs for tourism dollars and whatever their preferred form of lake recreation, along with income from sales of fishing gear and boat rentals. Also a lot of unfounded worry that the removal of the dams is somehow gping to cause lasting damage, rather than restoration. What those people's complaints and concerns lack are actual data and the ring of truth when it comes to the science. I have far more faith in the research of scientists than the opinions of the guy who's upset that he won't be able to sell as much fishing bait and rent house boats to people. It is simply not true that the damn removal will cause lasting detrimental effects to the river channel and ecosystem. That damage was done over a century ago. It is regrettable that some people who've built their livelihoods around the man made ecological damage that's been done to the river systems are going to have to adapt to change. However, it will be far easier for those people to adapt to the restoration of the ecosystem than for the ecosystem to sustain their lives without restoration.

[@robsimer9296]

The land will never be what it was and neither will the salmon run.. This is just another form of geo engineering with the aim of returning the area to the stone age......progressives and Indians call it something else.

[@unboxinglife2308]

The science is bought and paid for. You’re a fool to “trust” government scientists. They’ve been lying to us all. Don’t be ignorant dude, they can haul truckloads of concrete in, they can haul truckloads of sediment out. This was a worst case scenario to save money and time at the cost of wildlife and people’s livelihoods. You realize this poisoned water wells downstream? And you trust the scientists?! lol open you eyes, think with your brain and not your heart.

[@kryan318]

wasn't 2002 a severe drought year and only salmon below the Trinty river confluence died. after all this, didn't fish still make it to the hatchery and also spawn below iron gate dam?

[@albertrusso6355]

Hate to burst your bubble. Salmon never where able to go up river due to a lava dam just east of the Copco Dam. Get your facts straight and check the historical record.

[@KennyWatson-mu9to]

I Understand what you're asking for. But the sediment behind these Dams have now washed in the Klamath River killing every living thing in it. Now will that help to restore the River. Millions of Fish are dead now? Unless we have a Major Flood. That Sediment will not clear out. This seems to be based on Hope's and Dreams. Sometimes Hope's and Dreams don't always come true. I Hope this is the River move. If not some Fish was Better than No Fish.

[@williamwhitaker9807]

"It anticipated that sediment mobilizing in the first months of the dam removal would muddy the river, as turbidity naturally rises with higher winter flows. Our biological opinion expected the turbidity to have some short-term impacts on fish this year." Https:www.fisheries.noaa.gov

[@johnkilty1419]

The river beds are now running clean water in the center stream. The sediment was already killing fish behind the dams. In the summer the water would smell. All that funk is mostly gone now.

[@unboxinglife2308]

@@johnkilty1419 this is a totally false statement. I’ve been on that river for many summers and have never seen what you say. It smelled like a river, now it smells like a dump.

[@johnkilty5091]

Totally false? Talk to anyone who has been to Copco in August. I did not say the River smelled. I said the lakes got green and smelled. I said also fish died. All true! If you wanted to do something besides complain. You are late to the table. Dinner was served years ago. Complaining will accomplish nothing. Most of the people who live all along the Klamath are in support of this project. That is why it is happening. The Ocean smells every time the tide goes out. That smell you are talking about is the Bad news washing away. have a little faith. We all knew the beginning would be like this. Not sure why you did not. It hurts to rip the bandaid off. @@unboxinglife2308

[@tombeno8746]

Same bs FUD you write on every Klamath dam removal video, still wrong.

[@unboxinglife2308]

It’s sad because the way this video portrays the removal is not what has happened. The river is toxic, too dangerous to even get in. They’ve killed many native fish in the main leg of the Klamath and also killed 850,000 baby salmon releasing them into the blown out river…..so much incompetence or plain negligence with this project. Good luck floating that river any time soon. It’s a toxic dump. And by the way spawning levels below the dams have been way low for years, not sure they’re really thinking about the true cause of the low numbers. We’ll see what happens, but a lot of wild life just died for no reason.

[@szerintube]

What is sad is the number of people who are willfully spreading misinformation about this project to cling to their own narrow world view. There have been numerous dam removals that served as a template for this project. Those river systems recovered very rapidly, as did the anadromous species in the system. Yes, there will be a sediment plume that will move down the river, but the water quality is quickly recovering, and the chronic toxic algal blooms and warm, stagnant water, will be reduced.

[@unboxinglife2308]

@@szerintube so tell me what is “misinformation” about my comment? Everything I said is true and I can forward you links and sources if you’d like ?

[@johnkilty1419]

The reason the rive was toxic for a short period of time was due to the fact the lakes were toxic. This was as well planned out as could be. There are always the unforeseeable problems that come up. The problem was the dams. The fix is what has happened. Now nature will take it's own course.

[@kz-vp2ke]

GQP @$$hat

[@brockroberts4258]

Patience.

[@rexochroy2]

I am sorry to say this but just wait till the salmon returns. Then they will be stolen.