A creative way to provide limited spill in order to aid the remainder of
the juvenile salmon migrating through the lower Columbia River got a
serious hearing this week, but no resolution. The proposal made to the
Technical Management Team by the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish
Commission suggested that the Bonneville Power Administration should
provide spill without using additional water now held in storage dams
for future power operations.

A decision by the Clinton Administration not to proceed with breaching
the four lower Snake River dams ignores scientific research that
supports a free-flowing river as the best way to restore dwindling
salmon runs, Donald Sampson, executive director of the Columbia River
Inter-Tribal Fish Commission said Thursday.