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PORTLAND, Ore. --Federal water managers have begun the annual spill of water past hydroelectric dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers to help juvenile salmon and steelhead migrate to the ocean this spring. The spill began April 3 on the lower Snake River and April 10 on the lower Columbia River. Spill for juvenile fish passage helps reduce the proportion of juvenile fish that pass dams through the turbines and helps reduce passage delay at each dam, thereby shortening their travel time through the Snake and Columbia rivers. The specific “Flex Spill” operations at each dam are outlined in ...

February 12, 2021 By David Murray Barging interests, the wheat growers who depend on barge transportation and businesses in the Pacific Northwest who benefit from cheap, clean hydropower are among those are reacting to a proposal by Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson to breach the four Lower Snake River dams as part of a $32 billion “Columbia Basin Fund” for “economic transition.” The proposal comes one month after the Corps of Engineers released a final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) declining to breach the dams.  Simpson’...

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That green kayak volunteers have collected over $21.00 tons of waste so far and as word spread via social media the amount is sure to grow. and how about you if you're also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet. trying doing your bit. we share your stories. and that will be a good idea for law going here in lagos we're going to stick with the subject of rivers and visit one of germany's biggest waterways now the right even major rivers are feeling the heat as climate change gathers pace right and what we tend to forget is that a river system like that one was pro...

Storm surge in the area. that's going to back up into the river system and flood the area. so that's the biggest concern. even the outer banks could see five to 7 feet of storm surge. when you talk about the river levels rising we could have a second or thrd highest river level in history. as far as the charleston area is concerned. record is 12.5 feet. from hugo in 1989. you know how bad that storm was. we could get close to that with this one. the biggest part of this is people are fatigued from the storm. it lasted so long. we have been talking about it so long. you have to remember it's no...