Electric vehicles

[Paul_H]

Oh,I aint complaining and my appliances love it too. The best Dam power money can buy 

[StorminN]

Hydro isn't considered green here because the dams here kill salmon and steelhead.

About a half hour from my house is the Elwha river, which pre-1910 was home to some of the biggest salmon & steelhead in the world... the Chinook (King) salmon were regularly over 100lbs. There were two dams built on the Elwha in 1910 to 1927, and the salmon and steelhead populations plummeted. I mention this because hhe Elwha dam and the one that was built upstream from it a few years later (Glines Canyon dam) are slated for removal in the next few years... if this happens, it will be the first time dams of this size have been removed, and we'll see if any of the fish populations recover...

-Norm.

[Fla._Deadheader]

 And, what will happen, from the millions of tons of sediment that will be released from the dam removals

[StorminN]

Fla_deadheader,

From what I've been told at some of the talks, they are thinking the river will be silty for years... it depends on the amount of floods we have in those first few years. Overall, they are thinking the silt and gravel will fill back in on the lower parts of the river, which has been reduced to cobble-sized rocks or bigger over the years... there is hardly any gravel on the river below the lower dam. I believe they plan on removing the upper dam first.

They are predicting the gravel bars out by the entrance to the sea will grow, and Ediz Hook, which is a five? mile long sand spit a couple of miles east of the river mouth... will stop eroding, which it has been for about a hundred years... though it's been fortified with large rip-rap a number of times.