Story by Mila Cisneros | Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center | 05.30.2024
The Air Force Civil Engineer Center is leading a $100 million construction project for a water treatment plant and pump station to establish a long-term, sustainable water supply from the Snake River to Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho....
Story by Tom Conning | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Northwestern Division | 04.03.2023
Federal water managers will begin spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of water over spillways instead of through turbines during annual “spring spill” operations at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ dams on the lower Snake and Columbia rivers....
Story by Hannah Mitchell | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Walla Walla District | 04.06.2022
Hydropower, a clean, renewable and reliable energy source, just became safer for fish and more efficient at generating electricity, thanks to the new turbines at Ice Harbor Lock and Dam on the Snake River in southeast Washington....
Story by Hannah Mitchell | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Walla Walla District | 02.01.2022
Some fish live in freshwater streams and lakes. Other fish live in the ocean, in saltwater. Then there are salmon who do both. Salmon are anadromous, meaning they live part of their lives in freshwater and part in saltwater....
