It’s truly too bad, sad actually, that our local area has only one news outlet.
Otherwise the reading public would have a better picture of the asinine idea, and recurring results of the destruction of the Elwha River, dams and the ecological system that source fed the local fish habitat for all those years before the dam-nation of a food source for man, fish and fowl, the absolute desecration of the Elwha River and the resulting absolutely horrendous and never ending financial costs of that asinine project when that boneheaded idea was introduced in the name of “save the salmon” and “[deleted] the public.”
On May 17/18, we have PDN reports of additional repairs, $32.5 million replacement, needed to the Elwha River bridge due to river flow damage created from the loss of control that the previous dams provided.
On May 26, the PDN reported on a possible drought situation due to an early snowpack melting.
And, of course, now we have no Lake Aldwell watershed storage of reservoir backup, so once again we may experience the stupidity of the dams’ removal that prophesied the magical return of the historical 100-pound salmon.
And now, on Aug. 4, online, “Port Angeles to call for voluntary water use cut.”
Well, well, well, where is all of our safe water storage now, out in the Strait?
Paul Lamoureux,
Port Angeles