$1M Secured to Advance Fish Passage Solutions at McKay Creek Reservoir Dam

$1M secured to advance fish passage solutions at McKay Creek Reservoir Dam

PENDLETON – (News release from CTUIR) A $1 million federal investment will jump-start critical engineering and design work on fish passage and alternative solutions at McKay Creek Reservoir Dam, laying the technical groundwork to eventually reconnect more than 100 miles of historic salmon and steelhead habitat.  Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden helped secure the funding, which will support an alternatives analysis and engineering design for pote…

Funding Secured For Fish Passage Assessment On Dammed Umatilla River Tributary

ODFW and CTUIR say that $1 million in federal funding will help lay "the technical groundwork to eventually reconnect more than 100 miles of historic salmon and steelhead habitat" above McKay Dam on a Umatilla River tributary near Pendleton.  The post Funding Secured For Fish Passage Assessment On Dammed Umatilla River Tributary appeared first on .