Signed.

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Done, thanks for putting this up!

Have you ever seen a solar farm or the damage wind turbines do to large raptors? They are called bird cuisinarts for a reason. Of course eagles and hawks aren't fish so they don't matter.

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BOO-HISS!!! (signed)

signed it

When you're an international fisherman of mystery, one does not have the time or "energy" to be home anyway..........

There are wild fish above Sunset falls. I dont think this is the right way to go building a dam there. I would not support this and signed the petition.

wind would be the way to go there. I live in sultan and think if everyone on the block had small personal inclosed wind generators we would not need to burn wood or use electricity for months. they wouldn't even need to be super efficient. I just haven't been able to find one for sale.

This and the tidal power are insane.

As of 9am this morning we have reached just under 1100 online petition signatures! pretty good I must say for only being online for about 5 weeks now! lets keep it going!

Signed

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Signed and posted on Facebook for others to see.

Signed

The dam may be upriver from from a natural fish barrier but the siltation problems the dam will cause downriver is enough cause of concern for me.

Signed! Thanks Bantam.

Thanks for posting this Bantam. Most of us don't do enough (and I'm at the top of the list here) to promote or protect the areas we love.

We're in...

Too bad that this kind of interest and involvement has not or can not be generated on issues that really matter for the fish of the region!

The "dam" here is a relatively low weir to insure a constant diversion of water to the intake. From the project discription it looks like that "impoundment" behind that weir will have about 2 surface acres (average depth of 10 feet). Hardly the vision that comes to mind when talking about "daming" the South Fork Skykomish.

Interest in a low head hydro - run of the river project has been around since at least the early 1980s. These kinds of projects are a different animal than say the large "Spada" type projects. Snohomish County has two operating low head hydro projects in the Basin (one on Woods Creek and another on Youngs River) and a couple others proposed on tirbutaries of the North Fork Snoqualmie.

Maybe some folks here have had the chance to look at the Youngs River project can report on.

The big fish issue with projects like this are screen fish away from the intake, ramping rates at start up and shut down, and in this case attraction of adult fish to the fish trap at Sunset Falls. In saure that the tribes and various state and Federal agencies have been and will be all over the requirements to protect the fish.

BTW -
As part of the project it is reported the PUD will invest in upgrading the fish trap and haul facility at Sunset Falls. The facility is more than 50 years old and reaching the end of its useful life.

Tight lines
Curt

Who cares? Dams are a thing of the past, it's time to use an alternative source of power.