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Gary Williams: If Clavey had been dammed we might not have so much flooding

Let us now rejoice our decision to prevent MID/TID from building the dam on the Clavey River. It would just hold back a lot of water that now flows into Don Pedro. The poor people that live next to the Stanislaus River are inconvenienced by building of the New Melones Dam and miss the fun of flooding. Let’s keep up the work of protecting the natural nature of the rivers

Gary Williams, Modesto

This story was originally published February 21, 2017 at 5:49 PM with the headline "Gary Williams: If Clavey had been dammed we might not have so much flooding."

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