🚀 go-pugleaf

   Okay, so which experts are saying that the dam is a good idea?

   > The USACE acknowledges that if Sacramento is to have the 
   > same degree of flood protection as other comparable metropolitan 
   > US areas, an Auburn Dam is necessary.

   Wrong. U.S. Army Corp of Engineers has stated that by upgrading 
   the existing Folsom Dam and American River levees at a cost far 
   less than the Auburn Dam, Sacramento can protect itself "against 
   the most severe combination of meteorological and hydrological 
   conditions reasonably characteristic of the region."

The USACE also says:

- The current proposal offers the maximum net economic benefit of all
alternatives. 

   As you well know Ralph, the dam is a multi-purpose proposal, not
   a dry dam proposal.

Well, not exactly.  The proposal is an expandable dry dam.

   As I mentioned before, the social programs to which you are 
   referring are targeted for people who find themselves in dire 
   circumstances due to factors beyond their control.  Moving onto 
   a floodplain is simply not comparable.

No, your right.  Living in a floodplain because you are a child and
your parents live their, or because your job is there, is not
comparable to, say, deciding at 16 years old you want to leave your
parents and the best way is to get pregnant so Uncle Sucker will pay
to move out.

   Without the forum you have provided the dam might actually 
   have been constructed.

Yawn.  Time for a reality check, dude.  What happens here on the
Internet doesn't influence anything, yet.  Our squabbles in this media
are nothing more than the springtime cat fight at 11 at night:
irritating but harmless.

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"Nada burra la chamaca." A.G.
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