Scott Swanson
Green Peter Reservoir will be lowered to historic levels this fall and early winter, during which period its dam generators will cease to produce electric power, in an effort to preserve young Chinook salmon and steelhead, a federal judge has ordered.
U.S. District Judge Marco Hernandez has approved a plan produced by an “expert panel” of scientists and others, which requires Green Peter to be drawn down to 780 feet above sea level,…