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On
April 21st, US Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins
rocked the North Coast with a Tweet: She claimed that a Los
Angeles-area local water district, the Elsinore Valley Municipal
Water District, wanted
to purchase the Eel River dams to operate them for hydroelectric
power and provide irrigation. The
Water District has since walked back Sec. Rollin’s Tweet, claiming
that it had no firm plans and its interest was, at present, only
exploratory. Now,
Congressman Huffman is involved and livid—rightfully so, as he has
worked hard on a solution that would work for both parts of his
district—and has
initiated an investigation into this affair.
Alicia
Hamann and Scott Greacen of Friends of the Eel River join the show to
discuss whether the public should take this threat seriously and what
can be done to keep dam removal on track.
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