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Almost every city along the Austrian length of the Danube was partly under water, damage to adjoining cropland was estimated at $20 million, and 200 bridges were out. On the German-Austrian border a dam was blown up to prevent further flooding, and at one spot on the Danube, the bodies of 200 deer, 300 rabbits and 800 pheasants were washed ashore...
...policy means an increase in power rates, although they probably would have gone up anyway. The Administration has switched to a new formula for allocating costs of power at dams. This will boost power costs. But the biggest reason for a rise in rates is the fact that power costs of dams now coming into use will reflect the high postwar construction costs of $300 per kw. of installed capacity v. $100 prewar. Despite the protests of public-power men, the partnership program has already won favor among the potential partners. In California, local irrigation districts are ready to finance...
...hottest political fight is over the Hell's Canyon dam on the Pacific Northwest's Snake River, one of the last great undeveloped river valleys in the U.S. The fight started in 1948 when the Interior Department proposed a huge new dam. The Idaho Power Co. countered with an offer to build three smaller dams. They would cost only $133 million, compared to $383 million for the Government's one dam, yet furnish two-thirds as much power. The Interior Department opposed Idaho Power's application, argued that it would not fit in with overall plans...
When the Republicans came in, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay did an about-face. The private company plan, said he, would supply power seven years before the Government could. Moreover, as a practical matter, the Interior Department had twice been turned down on dam funds, saw little prospect of getting them. (The Idaho Power application is now before the Federal Power Commission...
Although public-power proponents have been trying to represent the power fight as a straight Democrat v. Republican affair, both parties have split, depending on individual projects. Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Robert S. Kerr is sponsor of the Markham Ferry Dam in his state, to be built by a state authority, aided by federal funds for flood control. A bill to allow the Alabama Power Co. to build dams on the Coosa River, sponsored by Democratic Senators Lister Hill and John Sparkman, was recently passed by Congress (TIME, June 28). On the other hand, Republican Tom Dewey wants...