Demolition of the second of four dams on Klamath River is underway

The restoration of the former reservoir footprints is underway and will continue for several years until vegetation is successfully established and water clarity returns.

[@ed241]

Excellent work! This is so gratifying.

[@rancors1]

The companies were going to eith have to upgrade them of remove them. They didn't generate enough to offset the damage they did.

[@AOCisHome]

@ 0:20 A barge with Chinese works flipped at copco 1 while they were scaling the sides. When I was a kid I would play on this dam before they fenced it off. Over on the other side opposite the powerhouse are the workers houses. You can still see the fondations. All so Benjamin Harrison came out to the old hotsprings resort.

[@terrylapierre5057]

Great news for the environment!! Awesome.

[@philiphorner31]

Perfect! Less electricity for more electric cars. Im inspired.

[@magicone9327]

And you are amongst the many who are against electric cars for various reasons, one would think you’d see this as an affirmation of why you believe electric cars won’t function for long.

[@williamlloyd3769]

All these dams were end-of-life and would have required billions to rebuild. More effective and less costly to install solar cells, wind farms, and grid-scale batteries

[@centurione6489]

@@williamlloyd3769 And you know that because ...?

[@MrIanHulstein]

​@@centurione6489 Hey. Here is a 1400 page document on the 10 year + plan to remove these dams as they reached end of life. www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/water_quality_cert/docs/lower_klamath_ferc14803/krrc_detail_1.pdf
Massive projects like this usually have huge and transparent paper trails online if you are genuinely interested in learning the rationale and the numbers behind this decision.
In 2008 the Public Utilities Commission's studies estimated $500 million to bring them up to modern standards. To continue to maintain them was becoming too costly to justify continued investment for the small amount of power generated. (Around 2% of pacificorps total power generation).
Meanwhile the price and efficiency of renewables keeps dropping. Outdated, expensive to maintain dams no longer make economic sense.

[@johnkilty5091]

@@centurione6489 um! Because of decades of planning and research. That is how we know. Solid information. From multiple agencies. Why do you not know this? Too lazy to read?

[@markdorman52]

Frito from Idiocracy approves these messages, as his own car burns in the street! Lol

[@HammerOn-bu7gx]

And yet both states whine about flood control and lack of potable water...

[@johnkilty5091]

Neither of these dams provided drinking water or flood control. Both lakes were sick. You don't know this? Yet you come here and throw shade. Priceless.@HammerOn-bu7gx

[@georgehaydukeiii6396]

they took the dams out so whippy, winey, po-bus losers like you can have something to cry about.

[@issimondias]

That's great news, lets keep the ball rolling all around the globe.

[@normanriley5373]

that way we can all starve or drown from floods

[@issimondias]

@@normanriley5373 like the millions of people who drowned every year before they built the dams?

[@malamute11]

Not all area can live without dams. China too, though they have overengineered it at this point, needs dams or they face floods that are impossible to defend against with the Yangtze valleys geography. there's always a "once in a century" flood that happens there every 5 years, and to a large degree, the dams helped prevent the worst of it.

[@issimondias]

@@normanriley5373 because everyone starved and drowned before they built the dams in the 1920’s didn’t they?

[@KennyWatson-mu9to]

And its still a muddy River. That's going to stay that way for years. No Fish will come for years and years!

[@steven4315]

The Elwha River is recovering very nicely after it's dam were removed.

[@victorsr6708]

Nature takes over very quickly

[@johnkilty5091]

Here you are again! What experts have you gotten your information from? The local bar? How did the lakes look last august? Did they smell? The lake water was foul and it smelled like a bag of hot frogs, last August.@KennyWatson-mu9to

[@invisibilianone6288]

Learn to do without.

[@normanriley5373]

boy we can all eat fish. exciting right? live like the orcas

[@invisibilianone6288]

@@normanriley5373 if you can catch them before China's processor ships do...

[@normanriley5373]

@@invisibilianone6288 exactly who does this benefit

[@invisibilianone6288]

@@normanriley5373 who ? Benefit from what?

[@TinShackVideos]

@@normanriley5373
Pacificorp, now they don't have to spend billions rebuilding them

[@leeannhadgis5985]

So sad all the poor dead animals. This was poorly managed and it seems there should be consequences for all the death this has caused. Hundreds of thousands of fish, deer, beavers. 😢

[@kevinwaalker]

Please do tell us more
Maybe provide some facts as well
I guess you were ok with the thousands of acres of habitat destroyed when they built these dams
Not to mention the fish they killed .

[@Brendissimo1]

CIte your sources. Where were these animals who you allege were killed by the dam removal? How many? When?

[@johnkilty5091]

Hundreds of thousands of deer and beavers? You are flat out lying.
@leeannhadgis5985

[@billsmith5109]

@choosewisely4722Ivan sitting in St Petersburg can’t understand that most government information in the U.S. is available in two or four clicks. In this case the deer population of the entire State of California goes up and down, but is about 600k. No, one sixth of the deer in California didn’t run a couple hundred miles to die in the short term mire.
wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Deer/Population

[@georgehaydukeiii6396]

Yo ma+ma was among the big brown beavers that lost her bushy, nasty home site.