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By: Mike Prager The Spokesman-Review The growing abundance of sockeye salmon on the Columbia River reached a new milestone this week with passage of another record run at Bonneville Dam. It is the third record-breaking run in the past…
Utility uses tagged fish to check migration systems’ efficiency Christine Pratt Wenatchee World WENATCHEE – See any helicopters dipping baskets into the Columbia River below Rock Island Dam lately? It’s not what you may be thinking. The Grant County…
By: Becky Kramer The Spokesman-Review VANTAGE, Wash. – Mud, lots of mud, with a river flowing through it. Anja Reynolds gaped at an unfamiliar Columbia last week as her husband, Dave, and their three kids stretched their legs at…
By: Nicholas K. Geranios Associated Press Pressure from the water behind Wanapum Dam may have contributed to the big crack that has disrupted operations at the structure, the Grant County Public Utility District said Wednesday. The cause of the…
By: Kate Prengaman Yakima Herald-Republic VANTAGE — The boat ramp stretches out into mud, mud and more mud. Nearly 100 feet of mud now stands between the launch at Wanapum Recreational Area and the water. That’s what a…
By Lynne Lynch Columbia Basin Herald EPHRATA – Grant County PUD engineer Dana Jeske recently accepted the Outstanding Stewards of Americans Waters award from the National Hydropower Association (NHA) in Washington, D.C. Grant PUD earned the award for…