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  1. NEWS
    Apr 12, 2018
    John Harrison

    Think Long Term With Sturgeon

    Martin, who spoke about the white sturgeon population downstream of Bonneville Dam, which has access... Recruitment also is a problem for white sturgeon populations farther upriver, in the reservoirs behind each dam... In the reservoir between John Day and McNary Dams (Lake Umatilla), for example, the entire population... Sturgeon in the reservoirs behind Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, and Little Goose dams have only been... There is a bit of good news, however, in the upper Columbia in Lake Roosevelt behind Grand Coulee Dam...
  2. NEWS
    Mar 28, 2018
    John Harrison

    Mixed Review

    than $250 million annually ($254.7 million in Fiscal Year 2017) to mitigate the impacts of hydropower dams...
  3. NEWS
    Mar 16, 2018
    Carol Winkel

    Improving Irrigation System Efficiency and Its Impact on the Power System

    annual average streamflow volume for the Columbia River is about 135 million acre-feet at The Dalles Dam... basin — mostly during the summer months — reduces streamflow by about 14.4 million acre-feet at McNary Dam...
  4. NEWS
    Mar 15, 2018
    John Harrison

    Help for Lamprey

    One is to install wetted walls at Prosser Dam on the Yakima River to help lamprey pass the dam.... will improve facilities for trapping lamprey in the lower Columbia River for transport to areas above dams... habitat in the South Fork McKenzie River in the Willamette River Basin, where the construction of Cougar Dam...
  5. NEWS
    Mar 15, 2018
    John Harrison

    New Fish, Old Story

    Wildlife For spring Chinook salmon returning to hatcheries and spawning areas upstream from Bonneville Dam... The fall Chinook forecast is 365,600 fish, down from 582,600 in 2017.... sockeye, which numbered 202 fish -- 188 hatchery-origin and 14 natural-origin -- counted at Lower Granite Dam... The chum salmon run, which spawns in tributaries mostly downstream from Bonneville Dam, is forecast at...
  6. NEWS
    Mar 15, 2018
    John Harrison

    New Era, New Challenges

    Bonneville is the largest electricity wholesaler in the Northwest, selling the output of 31 federal dams... region’s robust energy efficiency programs and a program to mitigate the impacts of Columbia River Basin dams...
  7. NEWS
    Feb 15, 2018
    John Harrison

    Chinook Challenge

    Chinook Challenge Report: Dams, altered habitat, the influence of some hatcheries -- all are affecting... Report: Dams, altered habitat, the influence of some hatcheries -- all are affecting upper Columbia spring... part because access to much of their historical habitat was blocked by Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee dams... The construction of impassable dams, unscreened irrigation diversions and other habitat alterations in... with historical stocks, including spring Chinook that once spawned above Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee dams...
  8. NEWS
    Feb 14, 2018
    John Harrison

    Rate Shock

    Bonneville sells the output of 31 federal dams and one non-federal nuclear power plant to 142 utility...
  9. NEWS
    Feb 14, 2018
    John Harrison

    Wildlife Help

    Wildlife Help Idaho, Bonneville Power Administration agree to settlement of wildlife impacts of Albeni Falls... Dam.... Idaho, Bonneville Power Administration agree to settlement of wildlife impacts of Albeni Falls Dam.... Dam on wildlife around Lake Pend Oreille.... Albeni Falls Dam, on the Pend Oreille River at the outlet of the lake, was built by the U.S....
  10. NEWS
    Nov 22, 2011
    John Harrison

    ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT AND COLUMBIA RIVER SALMON AND STEELHEAD

    That same year; the naturally spawning Snake River fall Chinook run was estimated at just 404 fish—actually... Two months later, petitions to list Snake River spring, summer and fall Chinook as threatened species... salmon and steelhead listings totaled 12, including: Snake River Sockeye, November 1991 Snake River fall... The EIS evaluated four alternatives to help lower Snake River fall Chinook pass the dams: 1) the existing... In a declaration filed in the Biop litigation in the fall of 2017, a Bonneville official estimated the...
  11. NEWS
    May 10, 2018
    John Harrison

    Fish and Wildlife Program Amendment

    Wildlife Program, which directs more than $250 million a year to address the impacts of hydropower dams... Because the Program contains recommendations for operating the mainstem dams in ways that can take water... Those federal agencies operate federal dams and, in the case of FERC, license non-federal dams in the...
  12. NEWS
    May 09, 2018
    John Harrison

    Snowpack bodes well, for some

    Columbia River Basin bodes well for future hydropower generation as the water flows downstream through dams... causing localized flooding in and around Missoula, and the Pend Oreille River downstream of Albeni Falls... Dam at the outlet of Lake Pend Oreille is at or approaching flood stage....
  13. NEWS
    May 01, 2018
    John Harrison

    Habitat Potential

    Analysis suggests adequate habitat for salmon and steelhead above Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee dams.... , the next dam downriver, completed in 1955.... The stocks included seven sockeye, 10 summer/fall Chinook, 10 spring Chinook, seven steelhead, and six... to 20,000 summer/fall Chinook and Lake Roosevelt behind Grand Coulee could support between 12 million... He said suitable donor stocks are likely available for this reach, most likely a species of summer/fall...
  14. NEWS
    Apr 27, 2018
    John Harrison

    Treaty Talks

    The 1964 treaty authorized the construction of three water-storage dams in the headwaters region of the... Columbia River in British Columbia and the release of water from behind those dams coordinated by the... alter the timing and volume of water flowing into the United States, which could affect hydropower dam... The issue today is not whether to build dams.... The key question for the next treaty is how are those dams operated?...
  15. NEWS
    May 29, 2018
    John Harrison

    Sea Lions in the Willamette

    Hazing, relocation to the ocean prove ineffective at deterring sea lion predation on fish at Willamette Falls... The sea lions were back at Willamette Falls, a distance of 210 miles, within four to six days.... Sea lions are also preying on sturgeon and lamprey at the falls, as they also do at Bonneville Dam on... leave its sea lion traps in place on the Willamette but move over to the Columbia in the Bonneville Dam... (Above image: Sea lion with a fish at the base of Willamette Falls....
  16. NEWS
    Jun 18, 2018
    John Harrison

    Bonneville Cost Cuts Will Hit Fish and Wildlife Budget

    than $250 million a year of Bonneville revenues from power sales to address the impacts of hydropower dams... Bonneville sells the output of federal hydropower dams in the Columbia River Basin, the region’s largest... River Compensation Program, a series of fish hatcheries that mitigates the impacts of the four federal dams...
  17. NEWS
    Jun 18, 2018
    John Harrison

    Idaho Sockeye Survival Improves With Change In Water Chemistry

    facilities and released into the creek, averaged 50 percent from the release point to Lower Granite Dam... and over 30 percent to Bonneville Dam.... The expectation of the production program is to have 5,000 adult sockeye cross Lower Granite Dam as they... The most promising scenario, resulting in 75 percent survival to Lower Granite Dam, was releasing the... Survivals to Bonneville Dam of fish acclimated at the Sawtooth Hatchery before release also were much...
  18. NEWS
    Jul 16, 2018
    John Harrison

    BPA Identifies First Potential Cuts in Budget for Council's Fish and Wildlife Program

    million annually to protect and restore fish, wildlife, and habitat that have been affected by hydropower dams... Ferry Fish Hatchery, assists in the recovery of Chinook salmon populations affected by the federal dams...
  19. NEWS
    Aug 01, 2018
    Carol Winkel

    Risch/Cantwell Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Salmon, Bolster Existing Laws to Manage Sea Lion Populations Passes Key Senate Committee

    lions have entered into habitat where they had never been before, including areas around the Bonneville Dam... and Willamette Falls....
  20. NEWS
    Aug 06, 2018
    John Harrison

    Council reports on 2017 Bonneville Power Administration Fish and Wildlife Costs

    spawning grounds and habitat, that have been affected by the construction and operation of hydropower dams... depreciation) of capital investments for facilities such as hatcheries, fish passage facilities at dams... Bonneville buys power in the wholesale market during periods when dam operations to protect migrating... fish reduce hydropower generation below firm loads, such as by spilling water over dams in the spring... or storing it behind dams in winter months in anticipation of flow augmentation....
  21. NEWS
    Aug 24, 2018
    John Harrison

    Council Approves Next Phase of Lamprey Research

    Lamprey populations vary from year to year, but numbered well over 100,000 per year counted at Bonneville Dam... planting adult and juvenile lamprey and larvae for migration and passage research, testing and improving dam-passage... The final phase, 2027-2029, would use a combination of dam-passage improvements, habitat improvements...
  22. NEWS
    Aug 27, 2018

    Council Hosts Annual Tour of Power, Fish, and Water Facilities for Congressional Staff

    provide partial mitigation for the impacts to fish from the construction and operation the four federal dams... Then tour visited one of those four dams, Little Goose, where personnel of the U.S.... Army Corps of Engineers, which operates the dam, showed the visitors the powerhouse, fish ladder, and... spillways and explained dam operations....
  23. NEWS
    Sep 07, 2018
    John Harrison

    Flood Control, Ecosystem Flows Top Concerns At Columbia River Treaty Meeting

    The treaty authorized construction of Keenleyside, Duncan, and Mica dams in British Columbia, and Libby... Dam in the United States.... United States pays Canada for its share of additional hydropower generated as the result of treaty dam... and Canadian first nations, reintroduction of salmon to the Columbia River Basin above Grand Coulee Dam... responses from Lorri Gray, Northwest regional director of the Bureau of Reclamation, which operates the dam...
  24. NEWS
    Sep 14, 2018
    John Harrison

    Idaho and BPA Sign $24 Million Wildlife Settlement For Albeni Falls Dam

    Idaho and BPA Sign $24 Million Wildlife Settlement For Albeni Falls Dam Idaho Governor C.L.... Dam on wildlife around Lake Pend Oreille.... Dam on wildlife around Lake Pend Oreille.... Dam on wildlife around Lake Pend Oreille.... Albeni Falls Dam on the Pend Oreille River, the outlet of Lake Pend Oreille, was built by the U.S....
  25. NEWS
    Sep 14, 2018

    Cryptocurrency Mining: Revenue For Utilities But Little Economic Value

    But as the value of cryptocurrencies fell over the last year, and continues to fall, interest has waned... the three Mid-Columbia public utility districts in Washington that own and operate five hydropower dams...
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