Archive for February, 2010

We’re passing fish!

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 by Don Ratliff

This yearling spring Chinook is one of hundreds that have passed through the new fish passage system. It all seems surreal. I’ve been a biologist at the Pelton Round Butte Project since 1971. That was only a few years after we learned that the original downstream fish passage system was unworkable because fish couldn’t find the outlet. The fact that we have completed the new selective water withdrawal intake and downstream fish facility at Round Butte Dam – and are passing salmon smolts downstream – is amazing!

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