Quote Originally Posted by bassin_bug View Post
Excuse me, MHall, I hope you are correct in "your assessment" of the dam. While you make a few nice sounding points, there are more IMPORTANT THINGS like lives and property at stake. If the power plants at Burnside and the dam are shut down there will still be enough power. They are small compared to many other power plants. The inability to generate revenue from a small power plant is a great tax write-off.

If you haven't read the news report that was released yesterday by The Associated Press, please take the time to read it at this address:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070122/.../dangerous_dam

MAY 2007 BE THE BEST FOR ALL WHO FISH!
I have read it and have been keeping up with this for quite awhile now. The Corp has made it very clear that at the 680 level there is no real emminent danger to life or limb if complete failure of the dam occured. I would and have not ever put my personal recreation in front of another persons property or God forbid their safety. I think you have taken me a bit out of context here. And just for the record those aren't tiny little power plants down there either. This wasn't my assessment of the dam this was the ACOE and it is only being lowered to that level and held there as an absolute measure of safety in a worse case senario.