Auburn Dam: Difference between revisions

|accessdate=2010-06-23}}</ref> was defeated by the intervention of environmentalists, conservationists, and cost-conscious economists. Although up to three bills to revive the dam project were introduced in Congress over the next twenty years, all were turned down.<ref name="wouldntdie"/> Representative Norman D. Shumway introduced the Auburn Dam Revival Act of 1987, which was rejected because of the phenomenally high costs. A flood control bill in 1988 involving the Auburn Dam was also defeated.<ref>Smith. p. 152</ref> In 1992 and 1996, plans for restarting the Auburn project appeared in various water projects bills. However, even though the project was now leaning towards purely flood-control instead of the original expensive multipurpose that environmental groups had opposed, both were denied.<ref>Smith, p. 153</ref> As the years dragged on, the cost of the project grew, and it officially ended with the revoking of USBR water rights to the site by the state on November 11, 2008.<ref name="loomis"/>