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  2. Bonneville Dam - Wikipedia

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    June 30, 1987 [5] Bonneville Lock and Dam / ˈbɒnəvɪl / consists of several run-of-the-river dam structures that together complete a span of the Columbia River between the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington at River Mile 146.1. [6] The dam is located 40 miles (64 km) east of Portland, Oregon, in the Columbia River Gorge.

  3. Fish ladder - Wikipedia

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    Pool-and-weir fish ladder at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River Drone video of a fish way in Estonia, on the river Jägala FERC Fish Ladder Safety Sign. A fish ladder, also known as a fishway, fish pass, fish steps, or fish cannon is a structure on or around artificial and natural barriers (such as dams, locks and waterfalls) to facilitate diadromous fishes' natural migration as well as ...

  4. Cowlitz River - Wikipedia

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    The Cowlitz River has three major hydroelectric dams, with several small-scale hydropower and sediment retention structures within the Cowlitz Basin. The Cowlitz Falls Project is a 70 megawatt hydroelectric dam built in the early 1990s and completed in 1994. The dam is 140 feet (43 m) high and 700 feet (210 m) wide.

  5. 9 new bills filed to reverse Biden administration’s Snake ...

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    Direct the Department of Energy to develop fish and wildlife program funding alternatives to mitigate the cost to Bonneville Power Administration ratepayers. The BPA Fish and Wildlife Program now ...

  6. File:Fish Ladder, Bonneville Dam-2.jpg - Wikipedia

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    Camera manufacturer: NIKON CORPORATION: Camera model: NIKON D3100: Exposure time: 1/125 sec (0.008) F-number: f/5.6: ISO speed rating: 110: Date and time of data generation: 15:58, 20 June 2013: Lens focal length: 18 mm: Horizontal resolution: 240 dpi: Vertical resolution: 240 dpi: Software used: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows) File ...

  7. McNary Dam - Wikipedia

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    Annual generation. 5,170 GWh [1] [2] McNary Dam is a 1.4-mile (2.2-km) long concrete gravity run-of-the-river dam which spans the Columbia River. It joins Umatilla County, Oregon with Benton County, Washington, 292 miles (470 km) upriver from the mouth of the Columbia. [3] It is operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ' McNary Lock and Dam ...

  8. Steelhead - Wikipedia

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    However, fish counts at Boneville Dam, on the Columbia River below the Deschutes confluence have shown a 10 year (2013–2022) average of 162,988 returning adults, and a four year (2019–2022) average of 97,352, suggesting a recent decline in rates of returning adults. Notes Robert J. Behnke monograph

  9. Lake Bonneville - Wikipedia

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    pluvial lake (a paleolake created by a change in water balance in the basin) Etymology. Benjamin Bonneville. Surface area. ~20,000 sq mi (51,000 km 2) (at max. lake level) Max. depth. over 980 ft (300 m) Lake Bonneville was the largest Late Pleistocene paleolake in the Great Basin of western North America.