WSP09958 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

tt:) Co 0')', ~,i '23</'" ...." NEWS FROM',j CALIFORNIA WATER RESOURCES ASSHATlON ORGANIZED IN 1955 AS THE FEATHER RIVER PROJECT ASSOCIATION A non-profit, non-partisan state-wide citi:;ens association dedicated to cooperative development of u:ater resources of California and the West as "Californians for Water Action." 223 EAST BROADWAY, GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA 91205 Telephone 24&-0444 or 245-2317, For Further Information Call: Jack Keatlnl' FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 23, 1969 The Army General who recommended construction of the joint State-Federal $245 million Dos Rios Dam in Mendocino County today was on record with the charge project opponents circulated "fiction" about the dam "which in many cases have obscured the facts. II Brig. Gen. W. M. Glasgow, Jr., South Pacific Division Engineer, U. S. Army Engineers, cited the following points before a California Water Resources Association luncheon in San Francisco: 1. "Flood control, for example, though a small percentage of the total allocated project costs, does represent an important increment of the solution of the flood control problems of the Eel River from Dos Rios downstream," he said. (The $30 million allocated for flood control, about the largest flood project of its kind in the Army district, has been belittled by dam opponents as negligible.) 2. "As far as engineering problems based on difficult geology, landslides and seismic activity, their solutions present challenges not significantly different than those met successfully by engineers allover the world," he said. (Dam oppon- ents have said such problems appeared so great the project should be discarded.) 3. liThe economics of water supply have been questioned, based on extra- polations (Webster says this means to project by inference into an unexplored situation) of technology in sea water desalting that have yet to be tested and proved, II he said. (Dam opponents used such reasoning to contend the project cost- benefit ratio really was about one-third the favorable figure computed by the Army.) 4. "The proposed solutions to the social problems of relocating the people in Round Valley have been attacked but no alternatives have been suggested, II he said. (Dam opponents have inflated Indian population statistics, ignored the boom recreation would afford the area, exaggerated the extent of Round Valley agriculture and misrepresented compensation to be afforded those displaced.) (more)