After many years of legislation the water rights of the Rogue River became protected and fish were given a free passage to the hatchery and breeding grounds up and down the river to the sea.
Thank you for all that you do... Remember, it will take years for a damaged river to recover. For all those who expect instant results, you are being naive.
Characterizations don't matter. Metrics do. Fish populations have been in a steady decline over many years before and after dams removed. Particularly steelhead. Coho already wiped out. We're spending our resources in the wrong place.
Who are these people who want to keep these worthless old dams? The point of this dam was for irrigation and now they have a new pumping station. It costs more money to fix these old dams than they’re worth
Excellent project! Only wish I could have gotten some big-picture views of the dam area and overall plan instead of the closeups of concrete removal machinery.
Fish ladders are so patently ridiculous, I don’t know how anyone could ever have thought they were useful. It’s so obvious that fish wouldn’t be able to find them or use them, I don’t know why they bothered to put them in.
Why don't they build new dams? I don't get it. Hydro power is the cleanest possible power......and they are REMOVING them. Maybe a dam is old. But then build a new one.
No benefit yet lots of negatives and can someone who thinks fish ladders don’t work explain the record numbers of salmon in the 1980s. What I can’t get my mind around is why you hope for the worst any excuse to take apart anything that works then pat each other on the back and go look for the next thing to destroy. Irrigation doesn’t cause suffering not irrigating causes suffering. Getting pleasure from harming people must be the definition of evil
I wouldn't be bragging about this. Based on hard metrics, the money and manhours should have gone elsewhere. The fish numbers did not go up 22%. As of 10/1/2023 per the Huntley Beach surveys, Fall Chinook are down 25% from the 10 year average. Summer Steelhead numbers are about 1/3 of their 10 year average. This drop isn't caused by the dam but the dam removal did not keep populations above fish-able thresholds. As such millions that could have been spent on more worthwhile projects were spent without the promised result. And tons of sediment were dumped downstream. And the financial impact to the community was a loss due to the closure of businesses supported by the Savage Dam reservoir. Not to mention the current problems and expense with the irrigation pumps. There has been no economic benefit. No fisheries benefit. And apparently, no accountability for failed projects.
@@masterspin7796 Naw.......just bringing much needed rational thought to the whole question. All you hear is how great ripping out a dam is and fish now has hundreds of miles of lost spawning grounds with the implication that there will be a big increase in fish. That is the whole purpose. When that doesn't turn out to be true you have to question the whole endeavor.
@@sw8741 Nobody expected the fish to magically return overnight. It may take several years before we see significant salmon returns to the river, but it will happen.
Just another in a long list of failed projects all over the PNW. Some real doozies up her in WA. I wanted to take a moment to commend you for posting. no accountability is right. Good onya! I used to hang out at Savage Rapids back when i was guiding the Rogue. gotta admit that fish ladder looks like fish ain't gonna see it.. but they do. I remember seeing plenty come up.. I for one will miss the place..
