Number: 1976-21
WHEREAS, the proposed Trotter Shoals (Richard B. Russell Dam) on the Savannah River, South Carolina and Georgia, would destroy thousands of acres of prime bottomland habitat for wildlife; and
WHEREAS, the project would destroy approximately one-half of the total available trout habitat in South Carolina; and
WHEREAS, the environmental impact of the project has not been accurately and fully determined or evaluated; and
WHEREAS, the cost-benefit analyses made for the project are incomplete, unrealistic, outdated, and economically untenable; and
WHEREAS, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has not recommended to Congress, and Congress has not acted upon, recommendations of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for mitigation of wildlife losses; and
WHEREAS, the project will degrade water quality in the Savannah River; and
WHEREAS, the Corps of Engineers is implementing the initial phase of the project;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the National Wildlife Federation, in annual meeting assembled March 19-21, 1976, in Louisville, Ky., hereby expresses its opposition to the Trotter Shoals project in its present form.