[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 170 (Wednesday, September 29, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H5550]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           EROSION MITIGATION

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I just want to point out to the American 
public and my colleagues in this Chamber and the U.S. Forest Service, 
the extreme importance of all the fire devastation we have had in 
Northern California and the need to immediately get upon the effort to 
cover up the erosion that we are going to have there.
  We need to mitigate the erosion that has a great potential to be 
there. This fire here, the Dixie fire--currently almost put out--has 
reached, finally, nearly a million acres, on top of the fire last year 
and another 2 years before that.
  We have over 1.5 million acres that have burned and are now a 
repository for ash and erosion that is going to affect what is known as 
the Feather River watershed, an extremely important watershed to the 
California State Water Project whose customers number about 25 million 
people in California, as well as much of agriculture.
  We need that erosion control to happen immediately, especially on the 
heels of the Beckwourth fire, the Dixie fire, so that we don't have our 
streams, our rivers, our lakes, plugged up with ash, with soil that 
makes it impossible for our water supply this coming year to be 
delivered to people in agriculture.

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