[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 17 (Tuesday, January 30, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H280]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 DAM REMOVAL ON THE UPPER KLAMATH RIVER

  (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, what you see here is the environmentalists' 
dream coming true. Environmentalists and the State of California are 
celebrating the largest dam removal project which is happening on the 
Upper Klamath River in California and Oregon.
  Actually, their work is killing endangered species, it is causing 
roads to slough off because the lake has gone down and is disappearing, 
and it is threatening homes with bank collapse. We have already seen 
drinking water wells going dry.
  The fish they purport to be saving are dying because of the nasty 
water and nasty effluent coming out of those dams.
  Supposedly, they are trying to save fish. They purposely have made a 
disaster and now are leaving the locals to figure out how to clean up 
their mess.
  Dam removal advocates have refused to see the big picture, all these 
years trusting a mere questionable master's thesis over the locals who 
actually knew better.
  So we are seeing dead fish. This picture depicts three dead deer that 
went out into the muck that came out of the bottom of those dams and 
are stuck there. Nobody could rescue them, so the Fish and Game had to 
shoot them from a distance and leave them there.

  This is only the beginning of the many miles of muck that will be 
going down that river causing death, destruction, and a smell to high 
heaven there that all the locals are having to deal with.
  There is more to come on this topic. This is not a win for the 
environment, fish, or anybody else.

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