This past spring’s attempt to maintain hydroelectric “load following”
capabilities while still keeping emerging Hanford Reach fall chinook fry
afloat has been proclaimed a success by utility and fishery officials.
“It looks like the operations, at least in my opinion, were successful,”
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Paul Wagner told the
Northwest Power Planning Council Tuesday.
The Grant Public Utility’s 1999 Hanford Reach Juvenile Fall Chinook
Protection Program was