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On the recordApril 12, 2011
Since 2000, there has been an issue with regard to the shortnose sturgeon, and NOAA has made a recommendation--very late in the game, I might add--that the solution to the shortnose sturgeon spawning at the new Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam is to tear the dam down.
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Johnny Isakson
Republican · Georgia

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Isakson criticizes NOAA's late recommendation to remove a dam affecting local water supply.

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