Deschutes Passage

In December 2009, PGE and the Confedered Tribes of Warm Springs completed construction of a one-of-a-kind facility on Lake Billy Chinook at Round Butte Dam, designed to attract and collect migrating fish.

For the first time in 40 years, the downstream passage of salmon and steelhead has been secured in Central Oregon’s Deschutes River Basin.

Comments

[God]

Impressive.

Now that I think of it, who needs rivers? Why not just transport them all the way to the ocean?

[jfwells]

Planted fingerlings in Wychus Creek a few years back. Lots of fun and great to think they will be back in the river in a year or two.

[jak]

"Secured" is an interesting choice of words, considering how tenuous the whole project is.

[cseverin&2]

Time will tell. For now it seems to work.