American Whitewater Asking to Encourage Dam Removal Study on Chattooga River

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Tugalo Dam was built 100 years ago. For the past hundred years it has inundated four miles of the Chattooga River and two miles of the Tallulah River beneath a reservoir along the South Carolina and Georgia border. The dam owner has recently proposed to spend roughly $25 Million to upgrade their generators to last another two generations or more. American Whitewater and our partners are asking federal regulators to take a hard look at dam removal as an alternative to re-investing in this old dam that has buried two iconic rivers for a century. Thoughtful letters from paddlers describing the impacts of Tugalo Dam and the likely benefits of removal will help us make the case for a robust dam removal analysis. 

The deadline for comments is this Friday, November 26th. 

More information and a link to comment at https://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/Article/view/article_id/5WFsVJnKa1KrG2rTfw0RW/