I've been publishing a fair amount of
Westlands-related news on the Trout Underground, and what the Redding Searchlight story didn't report was Westland's real motive for wanting Shasta Dam raised.
Currently, they don't receive their full allotment of water under contract (they clearly don't need all of it). They believe that if Shasta Dam is raised, they'll receive more taxpayer-subsidized water, which they can turn and sell to urban areas at an obscenely huge profit.
In other words, while some would couch the raising of Shasta Dam in how it's "good for fisheries" -- the real motives of many behind the plan are purely profit based.
Nice, eh?
Tom Chandler
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