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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (859752)5/25/2015 12:43:16 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (2) of 1575121
 
"Is THAT what you're referring to? "

Nope. That's news to me. Pretty lame. No, I meant, "You can't build liberal Pat Brown's dam."

Killing the Giant Dam
Published: Sunday, May 7, 1995

To the Editor:

As a former director of public affairs for Gov. Ronald Reagan, I would like to reply to Marc Reisner’s review of “The River Stops Here” (March 26), Ted Simon’s book about Richard Wilson’s campaign to save Round Valley in California from a giant dam. Mr. Reisner describes Governor Reagan as “the one person who could kill the project at a stroke.” He then refers to Mr. Reagan’s “ambivalence about the dam’s fate.”

In fact, Ronald Reagan did kill the Dos Rios dam with a stroke. On May 13, 1969, he directed California’s Department of Water Resources “to work with the U.S. Corps of Engineers to make further analyses of possible water development plans on the Eel River watershed.” He thus withheld his approval of the proposed dam. He was upset that a Corps of Engineers report had offered no alternatives to the huge dam, and he was already sympathetic to the plight of the Indian ranchers of Round Valley, whose property and ancestral burial grounds would have been flooded.

Mr. Reagan’s action was widely understood at the time to have killed the Dos Rios dam. The San Francisco Chronicle’s account carried the headline “Governor Refuses to O.K. Dos Rios,” and an editorial was entitled “Reagan Shelves Dos Rios Dam.”

PETER D. HANNAFORD
Washington

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