Frank Lucas actually said...

If we take no action to rehabilitate, we will be left with the cost of removing these structures or faced with constant threats to life and ...

Maintaining and updating these structures is often unaffordable for the communities that have benefited from the P.L. 83-566 program.

I encourage you to support and provide adequate funding for new watershed projects and for the rehabilitation of aging watershed dams.

By the end of 2017, nearly 5,500 structures will have reached the end of their intended life-span.