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Evaluation of sockeye salmon after passage through an innovative upstream fish-passage system at Cle Elum Dam, Washington, 2017

Open-File Report 2018-1116
Prepared in cooperation with the Yakama Nation, Bureau of Reclamation, and Washington State Department of Ecology
By: , , , , , , and 
https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20181116

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Executive Summary

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) and the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology), working with the Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project Workgroup (composed of representatives of the Yakama Nation; Federal, State, county, and city governments; environmental organizations; and irrigation districts), developed the Yakima Basin Integrated Plan (Integrated Plan). The Integrated Plan identifies a comprehensive approach to water resources and ecosystem restoration improvements in the Yakima Basin to be implemented over a 30-year period. The Integrated Plan includes seven elements:

  1. Reservoir fish passage,
  2. Structural and operational changes to existing facilities,
  3. Surface water storage,
  4. Groundwater storage,
  5. Habitat/watershed protection and enhancement,
  6. Enhanced water conservation, and
  7. Market reallocation.

The first listed element, reservoir fish passage, will be expensive and take many years to accomplish. Reclamation and Ecology decided to look at new and innovative means to provide passage that could help reduce project cost and construction timing while maintaining survival rates of traditional upstream passage facilities. Reclamation contracted with the U.S. Geological Survey to do a study to evaluate the outcome of passage through one innovative fish-passage system at Cle Elum Dam, the first Integrated Plan reservoir fish-passage project being implemented.

Suggested Citation

Kock, T.J., Evans, S.D., Hansen, A.C., Perry, R.W., Hansel, H.C., Haner, P.V., and Tomka, R.G., 2018, Evaluation of sockeye salmon after passage through an innovative upstream fish-passage system at Cle Elum Dam, Washington, 2017: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2018-1116, 30 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20181116.

ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)

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Table of Contents

  • Executive Summary
  • Introduction
  • Methods
  • Results of Fish-Passage Device Evaluation
  • Discussion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References Cited
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Evaluation of sockeye salmon after passage through an innovative upstream fish-passage system at Cle Elum Dam, Washington, 2017
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 2018-1116
DOI 10.3133/ofr20181116
Year Published 2018
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Contributing office(s) Western Fisheries Research Center
Description vi, 30 p.
Country United States
State Washington
Other Geospatial Cle Elum Dam
Online Only (Y/N) Y
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