'Big flush' is no boon
Environmentalists complained loudly and bitterly that the release of irrigation water from the Teton Dam resulted in a silt flow that killed some of the trout in the stream below, but in the Deseret Morning News article "Grand Canyon Dam begins big flush" (Nov. 22), we are told that a recent intentional large-scale release of water on the Colorado was good because it would create a large silt flow and kill trout, thus improving the sport fishery at Lees Ferry and the number of humpback chub.
Aside from the basic contradictions, increasing the population of the humpbacked chub should hardly amount to an improvement in any sport fishery. And the increased silt flow only serves to speed the filling of the basin behind the Hoover Dam, whose worth to society is much more than the humpbacks in the halls of environmental academia.
Frank Gardiner
Provo
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