Guvnah
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Yet the greenies are getting hydro dams removed to return the rivers to their pre-dammed state.
Jezcoe
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Removing outdated dams that are not generating power and costing money to maintain them is not a bad thing.
Guvnah
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Yeah, but those aren’t the ones I was referring to, and you know that.
Just another dishonest post from you. 
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Jezcoe
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The dam removal movement is by and far about removing old dams.
I am sure there are those who want to remove working dams, but they are nuts and no one cares about them.
Samm
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The whackos in San Francisco still want to remove Hetch Hetchy dam even though they get 180 million gallons of unfiltered ultra clean gravity fed water and 20% of their electricity … carbon free electricity … from the dam/reservoir.
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Jezcoe
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The dam is also in need of billions of dollars in repairs.
It isn’t a cut and dry issue.
Samm
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LOL @ “cut and dried.”
Cut => remove the dam.
Dried => drain the valley.
Sorry. 
It’s pretty cut and dried unless they have a viable replacement supply for that water and electricity.
Jezcoe
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Why ignore the fact that it is in need of billions of dollars of repairs?
Samm
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Everything of that age is in need of repairs. But removing it because it’s expensive to fix is not a solution when your life and/or life-style is heavily dependent on it and you have no viable substitute. You pay your money or you lose. It’s that simple.
Jezcoe
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That is for them to decide.
If they want to spend billions to fix it… the it will get fixed.
If they don’t, then it should be dismantled before there is disaster
Samm
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And what will they do for water and electricity if they choose the latter?
The voters passed a $4.8 billion bond to repair the water system twenty years ago. Why hasn’t it been fixed?
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WuWei
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Good thing Brandon passed an infrastructure bill.
Samm
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Yeah, they can build a new dam at Yosemite to replace the one they want to tear down at Hetch Hetchy. 

Jezcoe:
That is for them to decide.
If they want to spend billions to fix it… the it will get fixed.
If they don’t, then it should be dismantled before there is disaster
That’s a captain obvious response. You could say that about the Brooklyn bridge. Fix it, or tear it down before there’s a disaster. If the structure is needed, it has to be fixed or replaced.
Jezcoe
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Let me tell you about the Triple Cantilever on the BQE
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They’re looking for alternatives. My guess is a disaster will happen before they shut it down completely with no alternative.
NJBob
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They cut traffic to two lanes each way to reduce load on the structure. It is a horrible piece of crap.
But it ain’t going anywhere.
Oh, and may I add, ■■■■ Robert Moses.