Wyoming dam gets go-ahead
Acting on a recommendation from the state's Water
Development Commission, the Wyoming legislature recently approved a
$30 million appropriation to build the Sandstone Dam (HCN,
12/27/93). The commission okayed the project despite conflicting
evidence regarding the geologic suitability of the site. Mike West,
a geologist hired by opponents of the dam, says he found
irregularities in the report by the commission's geological
consultants. West charges they stopped their core sampling just
short of a shale layer that's inadequate to anchor the kind of dam
planned for the site. Work on an environmental impact statement
begins this month.