Watch as tribes take to the river to rescue fish when the waters drop
As the flow of the White River was held back by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Russ Ladley carefully searched for young salmon stranded in small pools. Unfortunately, most of the fish he found weren’t able to make it back to the river before the river’s flow dropped by two-thirds.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineer slowly ramped down flow out of their Mud Mountain dam facility so repairs at another downstream dam (owned by the water utility Cascade Water Alliance) could take place safely.
“These fish-outs are a regular part of the regime here on the White River, because repairs are regularly needed at a diversion dam just upstream,” said Ladley, who is resource protection manager for the Puyallup Tribe of Indians.
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