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6/1/2026
Limited Spill to Help Fish Passage Will Continue
The Bonneville Power Administration
PORTLAND, Ore., June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bonneville Power
Administration and other federal agencies decided on June 1 to continue the current level of limited spill operations for fish passage at Bonneville, The Dalles, John
Day and McNary dams. The agencies will monitor the situation and have not set a
specific date for how long spill will continue.
While spill has been limited this year due to the combined effects of
the second worst drought year on record and an ongoing power emergency, the
federal agencies have been targeting spill operations to provide maximum
benefit to the most species while maintaining power system reliability.
The primary benefit of spring spill is for juvenile steelhead and spring
chinook that originate in the mid- and lower Columbia River and associated
tributaries since many of these fish do not have access to transportation by
barges.
Spill is water that goes over a spillway at a dam rather than through
turbines. It is intended to minimize the number of juvenile fish traveling
downstream that pass through hydro turbines. BPA and the other agencies
intend to return to normal operations next year if there is sufficient water
supply.
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