“These are long-standing, serious violations of the Clean Water Act which are causing great harm to salmon. Federal dam operators seem to think they are exempt from the Clean Water Act but they are not.”
“A capacity reduction is essential and everyone knows it, not only for protection of the resource itself but for the ability of any single captain to make a living. At present, it simply is not working.”
“It's a diversionary tactic. The administration has done everything it can ... to avoid dealing with the big issue in the Columbia (Basin), and that is the dams.”
