White River Before The Dams

[Wayne SW/MO]

Actually Al the Lower Snake is pretty busy when it comes to barge traffic. It feeds its share to the Columbia, which in turn keeps the dams there viable.

I believe it's probably useless at this point in time to worry about the major dams in this country. They have been here too long and there usefulness is still viable. That doesn't put an end to any thought of tearing down dams, it only means the focus should be on the thousands of dams that have little use beyond tourism. Taneycomo comes to mind. I mean 1 megawatt of power is not a make or break situation.