Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers
on Civil Works Activities
Fiscal Year 1987
Department of the Army Corps of Engineers
Extract Report of Walla Walla District

Lower Snake River Fish and Wildlife Compensation Plan, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho

Location. At various locations within the Columbia Snake River drainage in the States of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.

Existing project. The project consists of a series of fish hatcheries and wildlife development areas at sites to be selected. The project will compensate for loss of wildlife habitat and anadromous and resident fishery inundated as a result of construction of four multiple-purpose dams and reservoirs on the Lower Snake River (Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose, and Lower Granite).

In 1980, the first release from McCall, Idaho, summer chinook hatchery was made, and the adult trapping facility that provides the fish egg supply for the McCall Hatchery became operational.

The real estate design memorandum, and feature design memorandum on the McCall Hatchery, Hagerman Hatchery, Lookingglass Hatchery, Lyons Ferry Hatchery, Dworshak Hatchery Expansion, Irrigon Hatchery, Magic Valley Hatchery, Sawtooth Hatchery, Clearwater Hatchery, the off-project wildlife lands, and the site selection report have all been approved. A final Environmental Impact Statement was filed with Council on Environmental Quality on November 2, 1977. The Dworshak National Fish Hatchery, Irrigon Hatchery, Wallowa Satellite Hatchery, Hagerman Hatchery, Lyons Ferry Hatchery, Lookingglass Hatchery, McCall Hatchery, Sawtooth Hatchery, and Magic Valley Hatchery are in operation. The compensation plan is 73 percent complete.

Estimated Federal cost of the project is $185,000,000.

Local cooperation. None required.

Operations during fiscal year. New Work: Construction contracts were awarded for Powell Satellite and non-hatchery sports fishing (McFarland). Work was also underway at the Little Sheep Creek Satellite facility. The above contracts are scheduled for completion during FY 1988. The final hatchery site has been selected at Ahsahka, Idaho, for the Clearwater River Basin. This hatchery will rear both spring chinook and steelhead. Red River-Crooked River and Powell hatcheries have been identified as satellite sides for the Clearwater Hatchery.