One Step Closer: Contractor Selected to Remove Four Klamath River Dams
Klamath River salmon have sustained the Yurok people since time immemorial. Yurok citizen Sam Gensaw is the fish cook in this picture. [Photo provided by the Yurok Tribe]
Dam removal on the Klamath River is one step closer to reality. The Klamath River Renewal Corporation (KRRC), which is the entity charged with removing the lower four dams on the Klamath River, announced the selection of Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. (Kiewit) as the prime contractor for this project.
The Yurok Tribe began its efforts to remove the lower four dams on the Klamath River in 2000, and an agreement was reached for their removal in 2010 and modified in 2016. Working with a broad alliance of partners, including other Tribes, environmental groups, and supported by various Federal and State agencies, the Yurok Tribe worked tirelessly for this restoration project. The removal of the Klamath River dams will be the largest dam removal project in the history of the world.
“We congratulate Kiewit on its selection as the prime contractor for the removal of the dams on the Klamath River. We look forward to working with Kiewit, KRRC, and PacifiCorp to make this project happen in a timely manner. At its heart, this is the largest fish restoration project in the history of the country. Dam removal is the single best action we can take for our salmon and it will create many good-paying jobs for community members,” said Joseph L. James, the Chairman of the Yurok Tribe. “Dam removal cannot come soon enough. I look forward to the day when we will never again have to worry about there not being enough fish to feed our elders or if it is safe for our children to swim in the river. I commend the KRRC for its thorough and deliberate approach to choosing Kiewit and we look forward to working with them.”
Kiewit Infrastructure West Co has completed a long list of extraordinary engineering projects in the United States and Canada. Notably, Kiewit was responsible for performing the highly publicized emergency repairs on the Lake Oroville spillway, as well as many other endeavors that are applicable in terms of scale and complexity.
“Now that a prime contractor has been selected, it’s time to roll up our sleeves and get to work” said Frankie Myers, Vice-Chair of the Yurok Tribe.
Yurok Tribe: The Yurok Tribe is the largest Tribe in California with more than 6,000 members. The Tribe’s ancestral territory spans from the Little River to the south and Damnation Creek to the north. The eastern boundary is the Klamath River’s confluence with the Trinity River. The Tribe is a leader in natural resource management, fisheries restoration and cultural protection.
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??Hopefully they will be monitoring the hazards that come with taking down a dam on a river and what can effect the water and fish from the debris.
??We’re talking Humboldt County, most of time they can’t see past putting the money in there bank accounts.
Lmao just wait, in the next 5 to 7 years the river will be empty of the salmon run due to over extensive netting, it wasnt the dams, that depleted the fish populations to near nothing, it’s been all the “indians” gill netting from the mouth all the way to hoopa and beyond. I just wish the tribes would stop playing the blame game and look in the mirror and see who is depleting the salmon runs and feedings elders lmfao, all they do is sell the fish for extra money, it’s either thrown on ice and trucked to s.f. or the semi trucks load them up at klamath. What a crock of shit. Call a spade a spade. Also to the member of the tribe that catch sturgeon and kill them or hand them over to UC Davis for testing, my God you should be stoned and I’m sure your ancestors are rolling over in their graves to the thought of handing over a sturgeons life to uc Davis for “tests”. Mother nature bats last anyways, she was here long before you tribes, and will most definitely be here long long after your race is depleted like the salmon.
This is nonsense. Salmon don’t run like they used to in any river in the lower 48, gillnetting or no.
Native Americans have been fishing the Klamath for 12,000 years or more. You’d have to be pretty stupid and racist to think that they were the problem.
[edit]. How do you think the tribe survive before you showed up. There were way more Nets in the river 200 years ago then there are today. And no shortage of fish.
Lol! Show us a”traditional” net! They didn’t use nets
I am sure there were several different types of nets, but there is at least one called a dip net. There were many different methods used depending on conditions and locations, but they definitely used nets.
Exactly! A dip net is NOT a gill net stretched across the river indiscriminately killing all species.
Looks like you’re the one that’s being depleted. In fact history shows we made it. Against all obstacles foreign and domestic we’re still here. River survived thousands of years before dams and it will survive after they are taken down. Hooray for me.
Emeral [edit] It was more likely caused by us white folks building canneries, to rape the river for years and years. By the way, if you dont like the local natives [edit], then get out of thier territory.
No worries, one good winter will unfuck that in a hurry!
You will never see spawning grounds for 100 years after copco lake is drained there has to be atleast 100ft wall of sediments and who knows what kind of heavy metals and ag runoff in the sediments. I think I can see how this will go. Also btw the salmon have lost their grounds up river from dams so the juveniles are no longer born up river so they will not travel upriver to spawn and gain new spawning territory, because remember a salmon spawns where it was born. Drrrrrrrr
If salmonoids were completely incapable of adapting their behavior, they wouldn’t have proliferated in the first place. Even then, what’s stopping us from stocking the Klamath with juvenile salmon until they adapt? Why do you have such a hard-on for failure? On your last post you said the dam had nothing to do with the salmon disappearing, and now its the dam, sediment and heavy metals? Do you think that the Indians did that, too? [edit]
My fear is that with all the dilly dallying around, by the time the tribes, engineer, and state, and everyone else who is involved, finally come to an agreement and push all the paper they feel is necessary, there won’t be a salmon run left to save. Its only been damn near 20 years since they first initially slated the dam removal project. My fear is that although we are fed the line that dam removal is happening soon, it will be another ten years. How many fish kills have happened in the last 20 years? How many more will happen in the next 10? How long will it take everyone to get off their asses and actually do something that everyone agrees should be done. No one is standing in the way, just take them down already! Those 4 dams are not for flood control so its not like any towns downstream will be flooded due to their removal. Those salmon are already living on borrowed time, the removal project can’t take another 10 years to approve. At this point, if the dams are removed and the salmon run is too damaged to recover, blame will rest solely on the inefficient gov’t and all the red tape put forth to do something that everyone agrees should be done.
Exciting news. The naysayers have been in charge for generations. It’s time to let the river and the fish and the tribes have a go. Even if the Klamath is in rough shape for a few years as the sediment clears, the relatively pristine tributaries will have spawning gravel waiting for the fish to arrive.
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Yay! Dam removal is finally happening!
So exciting! And to all naysayers, read about the Elwha Dam removal in WA a few years back and the positive change it has had on that watershed
Very encouraging dam removal. Began September 17, 2011 and six months later the dam was gone.
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Pacific Gas & Electric has owned and operated the 110-year-old Potter Valley Project since 1930, the heyday of hydroelectric dams in the United States. But now, almost a century later, “”demand for electricity is down””, the project is no longer cost-effective, and PG&E wants out. At this point in California’s history, “electricity is really a secondary commodity”, as Congressman Jared Huffman observed earlier this week.
Indeed, the project uses two dams and a tunnel to divert more than 20 billion gallons of Eel River water each year into the Russian River, “supplying precious hydration to cities, vineyards and other agricultural interests in Lake, Mendocino and Sonoma counties”, says Janet Pauli.
Janet Pauli, chair of the IWPC (Mendo. County Inland Water and Power Commission), recently underlined the high stakes here, telling the Santa Rosa Press Democrat in no uncertain terms, “The water supply needs to be protected. It’s very serious. There’s no way around it.”
Neither of those two statements of Janet Pauli are true. Isn’t the fear factor of scarcity (peak oil for example), obvious at this time? Sonoma County has more wells than any county in California. Having started, owned and operated a pump and drilling business in Santa Rosa for twenty years, I know for fact that there’s no shortage of water in Sonoma County. One of the wells we drilled in a Kenwood vineyard produces 3,000 gallons per minute.
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Remove the dams and screw those pushing their gluttonous$ and opulent “wind farm” electricity. There’s simply no evidence that the people on the Land of Humboldt County will be wanting for more electricity. Wood, Huffman and McGuire live in Sonoma County, with a population of 483,878, let them go peddle their bullsh!t in Sonoma County.
The idiots are running the asylum.
Does anyone know which 4 dams are coming down?
Found it!
J.C. Boyle, Copco No. 1, Copco No. 2 and Iron Gate. Three of the dams are in Siskiyou County and one, the J.C. Boyle Dam, is in Southern Oregon.
So when does the deconstruction actually begin?
I hope its not to late for these fish to come back it has been soom 65 years since these dams were built
How are they going to replace the power generated by these dams for local communities? Or are they not power generating dams?
~it’s such a bummer when you look and see. I thought ‘dirty electricity’ referred to what happens in the ‘generators’. As i understand it, the magnetic current enters w/two dipoles. Passing thru the generator, one of the dipoles is dismantled . On exiting, there’s two dipoles. It takes more energy to form a(nother) dipole, than it does to dismantle it. Later, i came to read about the ‘electricity’ power, that is lost from the lines in transmission. 80%? Next, we’re paying extra for the “Smart” meter’s ever-pulsing discharge of radiation.
Energy can’t be created or destroyed. The damn dams were unnecessary and cost prohibitive. Not to mention the wildlife displacement -extinction. Dead Harvest — Central Valley of California Water Crisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax5A3r_z4KA&t=18s 1/2 hr.
Then there’s the three nuke plants in California. Like heating a baby bottle w/a blowtorch. And all that radiation contamination.
Lake Mead must be drained by now. What is Vegas doing for power?