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<br />One intermediate- <br />term measure involves <br />moving water more <br />quickly past the dams. ' <br />_ By dropping wat~r lev- <br />, els. in the four lower <br />Snake River reservoirs,' <br />th~ rivet d;1annel (n~- <br />rows, causing water to <br />, r,ush more quickly. <br />Becaus..e this degree <br />of drawdoWn will take <br />the water below the <br />levels where navlga- <br />tioh locks and even fish <br />passage facilities can <br />operate, ,the dams and <br />, fish passage facilities <br />would require modifi- <br />cations. <br />We, call 'On the Corps <br />. of Engineers, other . <br />agencies, and Indian . <br />, trioes to help us evalu- <br />ate the effectiveness ofdrawdqwns in com- <br />bination with other flow measures. This' <br />I --, <br />involves preparing plans on drawdown de- <br />sign, operations, biological impacts and mit- <br />igation of economic consequences. Drafts of <br />these plans are due by November 1992, With '. <br />final repoJ:ts by November 1993~ ' <br /> <br />. , . <br /> <br />Power Company and the <br />Bureau of Reclamation <br />to release additional <br />water from Snake River ' <br />reservoirs to .assist <br />spring-'-migrating' adult <br />salmo~. In' addition, <br />Idaho Power, which <br />owns and operates - <br />Brownlee Dam, will <br />. make wat~r avaUable to <br />keep fall chin.ook redds <br />(nests of eggs) wet. <br /> <br />Intermediate-term <br />measures <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />- 0'.' neof..'. <br />.the'most~ <br />. . effective <br />actions to <br /> <br />. <br />Improve <br />the suiviVc;ll <br />of young <br />salmon is 'to <br />guideth~m . <br />. away'from, <br />turbines <br />and water <br />diversions. <br /> <br />In preparing this ' <br />strategy; we recognized <br />that actions the region <br />can take immedi,ately are <br />not sufficient to rebuild <br />some weak populations <br />of salmon or meet tHe <br />Council' s targets~ S6 w~ - \ <br />identified aset of longer-term measures that <br />will be needed, but whiP1 require further <br />planning before they can begin. Some of <br />these meisures are controversial, and there <br />. is disagreement aQout their <cost and effec- <br />tiveness. <br />/ <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />1882-1893 , .,. <br />Rail)ines connect eastern Washington to' West Coast ports then <br />eastern United States to western products and people. ' <br /> <br />