Political Quotes

“I had not visited this dam until a year or so ago, and at that point I invited the Modoc Point Irrigation District directors and the tribal leaders from there to both join me at the site of this dam. As we approached the dam, walked down, the skies were dark and it began to pelt rain and snow, not heavily, but it was one of those cold wet days. As I stood and looked at this concrete obstruction that backs water up and then allows water to be diverted into the Modoc Point District, we have to make sure that they continue to get access to water. When one looks at the dam itself, the top is wood and wire and it is all kind of broken down and disheveled. It is a mess. There is evidence of three fish passage ladders, two of which have crumbled down to basically the rebar and the concrete. The third one against the side where we were standing seemed to function fairly well. The biologist told us there are some 700 suckers that make their way through and up to the upper end where the habitat is impaired, and there is a lot of work we can do there, I think.”