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well, Rogue... umm... unions cost 10 billion.. Not a fan; depends on how you look at the solution. Could just fix the drain gate problem that Tom pointed to to drain it and drop the water downstream. They still get their water as it drops into another reservoir. SF seems to have a vote here. A big one.

for history sake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Shaugh ... ifornia%29

Well sure it's a national park which means prevailing wage rates if your union or not which puts the average worker at 30-50 dollars an hour. 50 dollars an hour X 100 million man hours is 5 billion dollars. 100 million man hours is over 500,000 years of a single man making 50 dollars an hour or 1000 workers for 500 years and of course that is 24 hours a day 365. So putting all that in perspective should show that labor costs will never drive something into the billions unless we are talking about tens of thousands of workers.

Gov't overhead..

Besides, It's a pipe dream anyway.. Oh wait, that's a different project.