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- From: orc@usite-next.uchicago.edu (David Parsons)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Different Transit Plans for Different Population Clusters
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.192326.23768@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 19:23:26 GMT
- References: <JMC.92Aug19185443@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <1992Aug20.181758.29072@vexcel.com> <STEINLY.92Aug20165744@topaz.ucsc.edu>
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- In article <STEINLY.92Aug20165744@topaz.ucsc.edu> steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson) writes some things to be said for dams:
- |Why dingo! Damns tend to create beautiful, useful lakes,
- |and severly reduce flooding downstream! While some mammals
- |get displaced a few kilometers, and salmon can have difficulty
- |unless helped by ladders, habitat opens for numerous birds, fish
- |and insects, and the stabilisation of downstream flow alleviates
- |ecological impact on downstream habitats due to drought/flood
- |cycles... ;-)
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- Unless, of course, you put a dam on a river that carries a lot of
- silt, then you get (within far too few years) barren downstream habitats
- and slit buildup in the new lake.
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- |It all depends on how you look at it...
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- ... as well as the consequences of it.
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- david parsons \/ orc@pell.chi.il.us
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