7089

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7089
• Author: Northwest Power Planning Council.
• Title: Strategy for Salmon
• USFW Year: 1992.
• USFW - Doc Type: Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program.
• Copyright Material: NO

At our request, the Corps ofEngi-
.. ,neers carried out a testdrawdown
- of .Lower Grani'te and Little Goose .
reservoirs in March 1992.-The Corps is pre-
paring a detailed analysis of that test.
H is the intent of the Council to have the
Snake Riverdrawdownimplemented
by April 1995, unless His shown to be

structurally or economically infeasiQle, bio-
logically imprudent or inconsistent with the
Northwest Power Act. '_
Our salmon strategy also calls JQr water
cQnservation measures that will yieldari ad-
ditional1 milliOI.1 acre-:-feet of water each
. year for salmon, Other measures, such as
more water storage in reservoirs, could yield
additional water,
.

I n t e f me d i a t e- term.

ACTIONS

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A r 0 U n d ,t h e B a' s n

Drawdown

Increase the speed of the
river current by lowering
the reservoirs behind the,
four lower Snake River
dams andJohn Day Dam.

Seasonall'ower Exchanges

, Increase river flows by sell-
ing hydroelectricity to 'the
Southwest in swnrner, when
poweiuse is highest there"
and buying it back in
winter.

1902
Reclamation Act authorizes federal aid to settle land and develop
farms. By 1910, irrigated acreage in the basin increased fourfold.

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, . Storage

Increase water srorage in
the upper Snake River
Basin to help boost flows
for migrating ~almon.

Water Conservation

Conserve water jn the
Colwnbia and Snake
basins, thus leaving more
water in the rivers for
salmon.

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1908
"The salmon fisheries of the Columbia River are now but a fraction of
what they were 25 years ago." _
. -President Theodore Roosevelt, arguing for
Congressional fishing regulations on the Columbia