Yakima Project Storage Dams - Fish Passage

Post Date

August 30th 2011

Application Due Date

September 12th 2011

Funding Opportunity Number

R11SF1C057

CFDA Number(s)

15.517

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Environment

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

This is a Notice of Intent to Award; no competition is being sought.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $65000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $65000

Grant Description

Reclamation is leading a cooperative investigation with the Nation, State and Federal agencies, and others, to study the feasibility of providing fish passage at the five large storage dams of the Yakima Project. These dams -- Bumping Lake, Kachess, Keechelus, Cle Elum, and Tieton -- were never equipped with fish passage facilities. Four of the five reservoirs were originally natural lakes and historically supported Native American fisheries for sockeye salmon and other anadromous and resident fish. Implementation of passage features at the dams has the potential to increase populations of upper basin steelhead, coho salmon, and chinook salmon; restore life history and genetic diversity of salmon; reintroduce sockeye salmon to the watershed; and reconnect isolated populations of bull trout.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Bureau of Reclamation

• Agency Contact:

  Becky Neuman
  Contracts & Agreements Specialist
  Phone 509-575-5848

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Becky Neuman

• Agency Email Address:

  bneuman@usbr.gov

• Location:

  Bureau of Reclamation - Pacific Northwest Region