Registered: 01/01/05
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Loc: Des Moines NOT Seattle
Hmmm, great point. I was thinking that as well. Not sure about a series of dams but two would do just fine. They need to make a big reservoir way up high. In the warm months they can pull cool water from the deep part of it..... That cool water would be beneficial to smolts in years of drought. Since the state is getting away from the planting of salmon and steelhead those dams would give us a couple more bass lakes...win, win
How about Lewis County quit allowing building on the flood plain, oh yeah, it's Lewis County. Hmm, I bought a house on a hill, no flooding here, it wasn't by chance.
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How about Lewis County quit allowing building on the flood plain, oh yeah, it's Lewis County. Hmm, I bought a house on a hill, no flooding here, it wasn't by chance.
You could say the same thing about King County, but they have a dam. I say get rid of every dam starting with Howard Hansen and Mud Mountain. Absolute stupidity to build in a flood plain and complain about flooding. Even stupider to build a dam so you can build in a flood plain and pay for the maintenance and mitigation. Oh yeah, that's King County.
Edited by No Warranty (12/10/1508:59 PM) Edit Reason: Forgot there were TWO flood dams in King County
How about Lewis County quit allowing building on the flood plain, oh yeah, it's Lewis County. Hmm, I bought a house on a hill, no flooding here, it wasn't by chance.
You could say the same thing about King County, but they have a dam. I say get rid of every dam starting with Howard Hansen and Mud Mountain. Absolute stupidity to build in a flood plain and complain about flooding. Even stupider to build a dam so you can build in a flood plain and pay for the maintenance and mitigation. Oh yeah, that's King County.
I honestly don't know how that project maintains any traction. If I recall correctly, last time the Corps of Engineers did an assessment of the proposed benefits from dams in the upper basin, they determined that instead of the 10 feet of water that covered I-5 at Centralia in 2007, with dams in place, there would have been 8 feet of water.
I honestly don't know how that project maintains any traction. If I recall correctly, last time the Corps of Engineers did an assessment of the proposed benefits from dams in the upper basin, they determined that instead of the 10 feet of water that covered I-5 at Centralia in 2007, with dams in place, there would have been 8 feet of water.
That project maintains traction because local movers and shakers are able to keep the concept alive by spending Other People's Money (OPM; i.e., Thurston Co. & WA state funds, not local), and because they know that the Corps has developed even stupider projects nationally if the political support can be mustered. The second no federal, state, or Thurston Co. money isn't available, and all the costs are on Lewis Co., the Chehalis dam proposal might finally begin to die.
I have a counterproposal to offer: I could be convinced to support a dam... provided it's built at about Grand Mound. You could store a LOT of water in the Centrahalis Reservoir that would result.
If a flood control dam works so well then how come Pacific is under water? Obviously, Lewis County won't make the same mistakes, right?
Imagine if Howard Hanson and Mud Mountain had never been built. Imagine a world where we let rivers flood and just built on higher ground. We would save so much money and property damage we could probably fund another war.
Registered: 03/03/09
Posts: 4411
Loc: Somewhere on the planet,I hope
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What would a dam due, wynoochee still floods and it has a dam
That statement is correct and wrong at the same time. The Wynoochee Dam is managed to reduce the flows entering the Chehalis at crest. It works by the way. The recent windstorm had the Chehalis held nearly two feet above forecast ( verified yesterday at high tide ) and Aberdeen had some flooding problems but minor. At my house it is the second highest in the last ten years but had not for the dam it would have been six inches or more higher and that would a have been a problem. If not managed correctly you get the Nooch on the freeway at Monte as a few years back but that was caused by not having enough capacity to hold a 1000 year flood.
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