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- NATION, Page 57American NotesCOLORADOScore One For the Trout
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- Time and time again, the Environmental Protection Agency
- has been outflanked by White House officials more concerned
- with economic growth than environmental protection. So the
- EPA's decision last week to block construction of Colorado's
- Two Forks Dam was a victory not only for picnickers and
- sportsmen but also for the Administration's in-house
- conservationists.
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- The billion-dollar water project would have turned Cheesman
- Canyon into a vast man-made lake, covering an area between two
- forks of the South Platte River known to outdoorsmen as the "St.
- Peter's Basilica of trout fishing." The EPA decided to block the
- dam because it would destroy a valuable wildlife and
- recreational area. Colorado officials condemned the decision as
- "shortsighted." But biologist Carse Pustmueller of the National
- Audubon Society applauded the move. "The project is absolutely
- not viable under the Clean Water Act," said Pust mueller. "This
- whole Two Forks saga has educated everybody that water is
- finite. We can't just keep building more projects."
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