On the recordJuly 17, 2003
I rise in support of the King amendment. Actually, there are two conflicting rulings right now that govern flows, and so it is not just one. The idea here is that we want high flows in the river in the spring, which will flood thousands of acres of farmland, and very low flows in the summer, which prevent any kind of navigation. The reason to do this is so the piping plover will build their nests high up on the banks of the river and will not get flooded out. The best way to handle this is to manually move the nests up the bank. They do not have to flood thousands of acres. They do not have to shut off the barge traffic. That is the simple way. It is the logical way to do it. And yet we are trying to mandate this thing by managing the river all because the piping plover and the least tern are endangered species or threatened species. So we think that this whole thing can be fixed, and we support the amendment.
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