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Little dams, they are as bad as big ones, maybe more because oftne owned by people or small companies that don’t have the means to maintain them or don’t want to. Our river La Dordogne is known to be one fo our best rivers, coming from Massif Central, she starts small bouncing in the canyons than becaomes that slow lady, filled with big trout and the famous DOrdogne grayling. It’s upper part has even been turned into a Catch & Release for several miles. But that was without thinking that the people owning the micro dam upstreet were just a bunch of greedy thugs who didn’t care about that river but only wanted to take the most they could from it. So one night, they just released the water stuck behind the dam so they wouldn’t have to spend any cent to clean it. Unfortunatly, with the water, were tons of sediment that went down the river and distoyed everything. We are hurt, all french fishermen are hurt, because once more “they” don’t care about our rivers. It make us want to cry, such a wonderful river. It’s a shame and shame on the people who run the micro dam. It makes me want to read one of the best Jim Harrison’s novel “A good day to die“. If you haven’t read it yet, it’s a must ! If you read French and want to knwo all about this disaster, it’s HERE
Here’s what we wrote in 2011 Blow that dam