Today the Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality and Warm Springs Tribal Water Control Board, in response to an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife request, instructed PGE to increase the amount of cool water to be released down the Deschutes River through the remainder of August.

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This spring, I had the great fortune to watch native summer steelhead spawning on a gravel bar in Trout Creek, a tributary of the Deschutes River. The scene was at Trout Creek Ranch, a 3,000-acre property purchased by Portland General Electric in 1999 for fish and wildlife habitat mitigation.

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During summer and fall 2009 and 2010, PGE, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and the Ochoco National Forest will invest about $35,000 to protect the fragile habitat around the Lower Whychus Creek Crossing. The creek, which runs near Sisters and joins the Deschutes River about 10 miles south of Lake Billy Chinook, is popular destination for campers and day trippers.

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Construction update photos from 7-31-08 showing the installation of fish exclusion plates and the bottom control gate frames from the inside.
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Photographs of underwater tower construction from July 25, 2008. These include an aerial view of the lowering of the bottom section and shots of the installation of the frames for the bottom control gates that control the water flow at the bottom of the tower.
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