Sweet Home residents sound alarm on water quality
Is it related to all the dead fish recently found at Green Peter Reservoir? Officials say, sorta, but it's not from decaying fish. Here's what they think is happening.
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Is it related to all the dead fish recently found at Green Peter Reservoir? Officials say, sorta, but it's not from decaying fish. Here's what they think is happening.
In Oregon, many endorse opening the Willamette river dams and letting fish coast the natural current as the best way to avoid extinction. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has other ideas.
Some residents in Sweet Home have complained of murky water as the Green Peter Reservoir is being drawn down to historic levels and turbidity concentrations have risen.
The Army Corps of Engineers said they were unaware wells would dry up as a result of the drawdown project.
Thousands of kokanee salmon died from barotrauma after Green Peter Dam's water level was drawn down to protect chinook and steelhead passage, authorities said.