Interesting that the article describes this as a state proposal, such that funding would have to come from the WA Legislature. There is no mention of Corps involvement and federal funding. Maybe the Corps won't sign on because all of their studies have found any dam proposal to be not feasible economically. I don't see the state Legislature coughing up the $$$ the project would cost - over half a billion on the low end, to $1.2 billion at the upper - without the 75% federal dollars that come with a Corps and local sponsor project.

The state Legislature can't or won't fund education (the number one priority for funding in the state constitution) under the McCleary decision, so I don't see them sending all that money to Lewis County to pacify a few local fat cat developers when they have political favors owed to many other more influential movers and shakers scattered around the state.