Posted by: Fishingjunky15
Why is Mud Mountain Dam still there? - 01/25/04 05:36 PM
Reading an artical in the News Tribune this morning about the low water in Lake Tapps got me thinking. It was mentioned in the artical that Puget Power stopped using the diverted water from the White River to generate power. The water was then diverted into Lake Tapps by Mud Mountain Dam. If the dam has no purpose now, why not remove it? I know the dam is not very big and there is no lake behind it so the only thing it is doing now is blocking the way for wild spring and fall chinook, coho, pinks, sockeye, and steelhead. Plus the fact that last year the Army Corp of Engeniers screwed up by stopping the flow of water for a day killing thousands of endangerd Puget Sound wild chinook and wild steelhead among other fish. So what is the purpose of this dam? Is water still being divered so that greedy land owners can have an unatural lakefront property? I just don't get it.