It seems weird to see Liberals on the same side as Duke Power, but there you have it.
The plans to provide an economically attractive park for Dillsboro, NC have been thwarted in favor of providing a few lefty Whitewater kayakers some thrills as they pass by Dillsboro, headed south.
Source: Sylva Herald Blog
Related: PDF of Ruling
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I guess that means I'll have to get out to Dillsboro soon to do some video recording of the Dillsboro Dam for archival purposes so I can remember the historical landmark and share it with future generations.
The Sylva Herald has some footage of preparations to begin the dam removal process:
And I'll leave you with a brief video by a gloating Lefty from September:
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yeah dam is coming down....and you don't have to be a liberal to understand poor decision making. The park can still be put in place and will attract many visitors to the town, county and region.
I would have preferred seeing the dam put back in operation as a renewable energy source for the local area.
That project alone would have made more money over the long haul than tourists coming to buy trinkets and beads from the natives.
This is great news for the area and over time I know that this community will benefit enormously. Those tourist may come to buy trinkets and beads but in so doing they spend money on food, lodging, gas, buy things from the mom and pop local stores owned by the new natives and spend money on a sustainable resource- outdoor. The jobs tourist sustain will provide more of a boost to the area then the energy generated from this obsolete dam.
Its hard to let go of the past but somethings must go to improve the future.
Does anyone know how much tax payer money was spent to fight this?
You are misinformed or misguided and/or both. The amount of electricity generated was a small amount. Also, instead of releasing water over other larger dams upstream and bypassing much larger and efficient powerhouses Duke traded this dam for those environmental points. It also will help the Appalachian Elk toe Mussel. Last is the effect on boaters.
A park will still be constructed and instead of having a park where no one could really use the water on the upstream side of dam in fear of floating over it. Now you have a river that will be waded, folks will swim and children will play.
The fact is the county never cared about the dam they just wanted a larger mitigation package. They also used folks from up on Lake Glenville to help fund and fight the dam removal in hopes of stopping recreational releases on the West Fork. They also wanted to retain the land that Duke owns all the way around the lake.
Get informed because you are just embarrassing your self and our county.
You are embarrassing yourself. If you paid attention to this blog, you'd know I'm from Franklin...
I could care less about the Appalachian Elk toe Mussel. I care even less about rich hippies, transplants or Floridians kayaking on the rivers.
I bet the electricity generated would be more than what comes out of the biodiesel park in Jackson County...and cheaper, too.
Misinformed again....
The same folks that were fighting to save the dam as a green energy source were also dumping tons of money into the bio diesel facility that has been pretty much dropped once they figured out that there were not enough restaurants in the area. It was all a smoke screen for grant grabbing and trying to get more money out of Duke. You should have cared about the Elk Toe since Fish and Wildlife does. They write directly into the dam license. This means they have mandatory conditioning. This means they wanted the dam to come out it is coming out. This was know over 8 years ago. So what was the real agenda behind all these court battles?
dam is coming out soon.....
Not much longer.....
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