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The dam features fish ladders to help native salmon and steelhead get past the dam on their journey upstream to spawn. [ 13 ] The large concentrations of fish swimming upstream serve as a tourist attraction during the spawning season.
Condit Dam. Condit Hydroelectric Project was a development on the White Salmon River in the U.S. state of Washington. It was completed in 1913 to provide electrical power for local industry, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as an engineering and architecture landmark. PacifiCorp decommissioned the project due to rising ...
Salmon River (Idaho) The Salmon River, also known as " The River of No Return ", is a river located in the U.S. state of Idaho in the western United States. It flows for 425 miles (685 km) through central Idaho, draining a rugged, thinly populated watershed of 14,000 square miles (36,000 km 2). The river drops more than 7,000 feet (2,100 m ...
The fish facility, along with the Cowlitz River Salmon Hatchery's diversion dam below Mayfield Lake, has permitted the reintroduction of salmon and steelhead in the upper Cowlitz River basin for the first time since the construction of the Mossyrock and Mayfield dams in the 1960s.
Fishery Lower Granite Dam is the most upstream dam in the Snake River system that has a fish ladder to allow adult salmon and steelhead to migrate upstream.
Timeline 1938: the US Congress passes the Bonneville Project Act which allows the sale of power from federal dams on the Columbia River. 1938: Congress passes the Mitchell Act which establishes salmon hatcheries to replace the salmon population lost from the dams. 1945: River and Harbors Act approves building four dams on the lower Snake River.
The River and Harbor Act of 1948 renamed the project Chief Joseph Dam in honor of the Nez Perce chief who spent his last years in exile on the Colville Indian Reservation. Because of its lack of fish ladders, Chief Joseph Dam completely blocks salmon migration to the upper Columbia River system.
The White Salmon River is a 44-mile (71 km) tributary of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington. [3] Originating on the slopes of Mount Adams, it flows into the Columbia Gorge near the community of Underwood.