WORKSHOP LOOKS AT NEW WAYS TO HANDLE FLOOD CONTROL; WATER FOR FISH

Columbia Basin federal dam operators could keep as much as 8 million acre feet (maf) more water in reservoirs in the winter to be used to augment flows in the spring and have more than 3 maf more to augment summer flows to aid salmon in low water years if they changed early-year flood control operations, according to calculations by the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC).

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