Fish Stimulus Package

Scheduled to be complete in late 2012, a new 60 million dollar fish passage on the North Umpqua will open spawning beds on the upper river for the first time in 60 years. PacifiCorp, who owns the dam, estimated in the mid 90's that it would cost 12 million to build the passage.

Some coservationists are skeptical it will even work.

LINK (Via: The Bend Bulletin)

Comments

[Mick]

60 Million dollars for seven miles of habitat?! I am all for anadromous restoration but this is embarrassing. I cant even image the litigation headaches behind this project.