YAKIMA — A proposal that would provide fish passage at Lake Cle Elum Dam for the first time in more than a century has been released for public comment. The proposal is contained in a draft ...

Fish biologists Joel Hubble, left, and Pat Monk watch as water from Lake Cle Elum rushes down a flume below the dam March 16, 2015. The water was let from the lake to allow sockeye salmon to begin ...

Environment Local News Fish-ladder OK’d at Lake Cle Elum Originally published August 30, 2011 at 9:13 pm Updated August 30, 2011 at 11:31 pm ...

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - Slightly more than 10,000 adult sockeye salmon just arrived in Lake Cle Elum, their upstream migration diverted by a tanker truck ride courtesy of Yakama Nation Fisheries.

Work is expected to get underway next spring on an important step in a long range project to restore salmon runs to Lake Cle Elum. On Thursday, the federal Bureau of Reclamation announced it had ...

Construction is underway for $130 million in fish passage renovations, all aimed at reducing the stress of fish movement past the dam.

Sep. 7—CLE ELUM LAKE — About 200,000 juvenile sockeye salmon swam through a flume over the top of the Cle Elum Dam in April and May this year, beginning their migration to the ocean through ...

Restoring sockeye to Lake Cle Elum is made possible by a crude fish passage system at the spillway to the 437,000-acre-foot lake. A flume allows smolts to escape to the downstream Cle Elum River.

The dam that they and 570 workers — some of whom died in the effort — built a century ago still stands as a monument to this country’s potential. Tieton Dam stands as a measure of what we’ve proven we ...

CLE ELUM — Construction is slated to begin soon on a first-of-its-kind fish passage for the Cle Elum Dam, and supporters of the project gathered at the reservoir on Thursday to celebrate the ...

Plans to restore salmon to the Cle Elum River above the Cle Elum Dam call for a unique spiral water slide to let juvenile fish head downstream. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports the Bureau of ...