The scorecards of state and tribal System
Configuration Team members could decide the fate
of a Lower Granite surface bypass program that has
used $20 million in research dollars over the past
two years.
Surface bypass and collection tests began at the
Snake River’s Lower Granite Dam in 1996 to
determine if the technology can improve fish
guidance away from turbines to other passage
routes — the dam’s juvenile bypass system,
transport barges or the spillway.
The prototype now in …
