Army Corps officials hear Sweet Home feedback on plan for dams system

By Benny Westcott
Of The New Era/Lebanon Local

A plan that will reshape management of 13 dams and reservoirs in the Willamette River Basin was the subject of a public meeting at the Sweet Home Senior Center on Jan. 11.

About 60 citizens attended the meeting, which had similar counterparts last week in Eugene, Springfield and Stayton.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hosted the meetings after the agency released a 2,200-page blueprint for managing…