TK, I was there but walked out at the halfway mark.
DeLapp spouted the same spiel he gave in KY and what the COE puts out.
My problem with the respondents questions was MOST, but not all, were people giving emotional speeches about having fished the dams for forty years and they want to fish it for the next 40 years.
No one, while I was there,confronted DeLapp with hard facts and figures, mostly emotions and statements about the few PFD's that didn't save lives.
There was no way the public is/was going to deter DeLapp. He was just going through the motions, having a public meeting, telling the plebes what was going to be done, all the while quoting that it was being done "in the name of safety.
You can replay any of the meetings held prior to this and you will have virtually attended this meeting.
The only possibility of the tailrace closings being stopped will have to come from Washington.
This whole fiasco is probably the result of DeLapp wanting to leave something for his legacy. God knows, he will be infamous for acting on this 17 year old edict, where none of his predecessors saw a need to implement it.
So, we are left in the same position we were in before this charade was started. But the time is short now. He'll begin implementing the program in March, to be completed by June 2013.
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