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Mike Belchik, senior fisheries biologist with the Yurok Tribe, joins Gang Green to give an update on Klamath dam removal (spoiler: it's on track to be completed by 2024!) and helps resolve a number of myths concerning the Klamath dams that you might see shared on social media.
To wit: (1) No, it won't increase in-stream water temperature (dams do that); (2) No, it won't result in severe flooding (these are hydroelectric dams, not flood control dams, and don't operate to control flooding); Yes, while there is a loss of power generation, that power generation is not very large (~170MW at full capacity, which hardly ever happens) and the power is not particularly low-carbon when you consider the methane produced by the reservoir behind the dams.
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Mike Belchik, senior fisheries biologist with the Yurok Tribe, joins Gang Green to give an update on Klamath dam removal (spoiler: it's on track to be completed by 2024!) and helps resolve a number of myths concerning the Klamath dams that you might see shared on social media.
To wit: (1) No, it won't increase in-stream water temperature (dams do that); (2) No, it won't result in severe flooding (these are hydroelectric dams, not flood control dams, and don't operate to control flooding); Yes, while there is a loss of power generation, that power generation is not very large (~170MW at full capacity, which hardly ever happens) and the power is not particularly low-carbon when you consider the methane produced by the reservoir behind the dams.
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