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With so much cost, catastrophe, there's really no dam point: outdoors

Chicago Sun-Times | July 2, 2006 | Copyright

In the middle of a news conference on dam safety Thursday, Rob Kocoras and Dan Veldman paddled straight for Hofmann Dam on the Des Plaines River in Lyons. Sodiqa Williams of Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn's staff frantically waved them off.

Not everything is as it seems with dams, one of their many problems.

Before the holiday weekend, Quinn kicked off his Illinois dam safety initiative with those of similar mind -- Jean Flemma (Prairie Rivers Network), Tom Schrader (Friends of the Fox River), Gary Mechanic (Illinois Paddling Council) and Jim Jozwiak (Illinois Smallmouth Alliance).…

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