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Originally Posted by SOSS
I agree. If its built right, inspected constantly we would never see a repeat of the Teton Dam disaster.
Is this a dead river for fish? Or is a fish ladder part of the design?
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It is downstream from two other dams, one of which is very large. Compared to the damage already done by the Bennett Dam, this one should be negligible.
The Peace flows into Lake Athabasca, not the Pacific, so it does not have a salmon run.
Bennett is one of the largest earth fill dams in the world and implants one of the largest reservoirs by volume. It required remedial work in the nineties to repair sinkholes.
I wonder why there are no dams on the Alberta side of the Peace. They could benefit from the storage providing by Bennett Dam.