Co-ownership of two lower Deschutes River hydroelectric dams will settle
a long-standing dispute between Portland General Electric and the Warm
Springs Tribes about who should be licensed to operate the dams. The settlement
had been in the works since the spring of 1999.
Both PGE, which holds the license for the Pelton/Round Butte complex
of dams, and the tribes, which own property bordering the Deschutes River
where the dams are located, have already applied for separate hydro …
