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July 23, 2014

Engineers design spiral water slide to help fish get past Cle Elum Dam

  • The unique design would let juvenile fish head downstream, regardless of reservoir level, but there's no funding yet for the $100 million project.
    • By KATE PRENGAMAN
    Yakima Herald-Republic

    YAKIMA — Slightly more than 10,000 adult sockeye salmon just arrived in Lake Cle Elum, their upstream migration diverted by a tanker truck ride courtesy of Yakama Nation Fisheries.

    By introducing the fish to an area that has been blocked for a century by a dam, tribal biologists hope to rebuild a healthy population. These adults will spawn and their surviving offspring will migrate to the ocean and back, returning to help the population grow.


     
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