Opposition of dams removal

I am James A. Waddell, a member of Karuk People of the Klamath River. I am a Karuk Member who does not agree with many Political Actions by a group of people who call themselves the Karuk Tribe of California. They do not represent any majority of Karuk People. We members, a majority who are living in distant areas, have never given them our permission for such Political Acts or efforts to remove Klamath dams.

Such removal of dams will bring the loss of flood control, a loss of control of summer water levels and will bring damage to other Klamath River habitats with millions of tons of accumulated lake sediment down the river channel. It will bring difficult decisions of how to kill-off millions of non-native fish in the lakes of these dams before such removal of dams.

 

There will be no significant reduction of algae because the algae is developed in the Klamath Falls area's slow-water rivers, mineralized springs, bird droppings of millions of birds and organic decay in marshes and wet-lands where these waters are subjected to intense sunshine.

The removal of the Klamath River dams will not bring salmon back to Klamath Falls and its shallow, warm-watered lakes and slow-water rivers. No salmon ever existed very long above the 14 miles of state-line rapids because there are no spawning gravels there. Read history by A. L. Kroeber or Stephen Powers, 1925 and 1877 respectively.