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Idaho Statesman: The Army Corps of Engineer under law is supposed to maintain the lower Snake River navigation channel at 14 feet deep and 250 feet wide. In the draft EIS, the Corps is proposing a long-term plan to manage, and prevent if possible, river sediment deposition behind all four dams, Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose, and Lower Granite Locks and Dams.
As I reported earlier, groups who seek removal of the four lower Snake Dams are using this process to push their point that not only is their......
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Climate change expected to increase Snake River sediment tenfold
Posted by Idaho Statesman: Rocky Barker on March 29th, 2013
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