The Bureau of Reclamation agreed July 2 to reopen discussion on structural
alternatives to reduce total dissolved gas in waters released from Grand
Coulee Dam.
The National Marine Fisheries Service’s 1998 Biological Opinion for
wild steelhead requires a feasibility study of such alternatives to be
completed by the end of fiscal year 2000.
The Bureau acceded to a request by members of NMFS’s System Configuration
Team for a July 30 meeting open to interested parties for technical …