Dams aid irrigation

Fri., April 14, 2017

A recent Sue Lani Madsen column about Snake River Dams mentioned that their purpose is to provide barge freight, flood control (remember when Portland was flooded) and power. No mention of the irrigation of crops worth tens of millions of dollars. Take them out and you turn those acres back into sand and sage brush. Also, you would be reducing a large river into a small river, with mass areas of silt and mud adjacent to it for a hundred miles for a few fish.

Dave Darlow

Spokane

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