Corps Moves Forward With Phased-In Deep Drawdown of Willamette Valley’s Detroit Dam To Aid Juvenile Migration Of ESA-Listed Steelhead, Chinook

A deep drawdown of Detroit Dam’s reservoir on the North Santiam River in Oregon will proceed this year, but the full drawdown called for by a biological opinion will not be reached for several more years due to water quality fears, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District, which operates the dam.

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