The President’s Budget request for Fiscal Year 2025 includes $500 million for construction of a downstream fish passage facility at Howard A. Hanson Dam on the Green River. This U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District project will restore the biological connection to more than 100 miles of high-quality salmon spawning habitat upriver from the dam, which currently is a barrier to migrating salmon.
A Corps of Engineers employee scrapes barnacle buildup along the entire length of the 800-foot-long, 8-foot-wide by 14-foot-tall filling tunnels at Lake Washington Ship Canal and Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, Seattle, Dec. 12, 2023. The Corps of Engineers is mandated to scrape the barnacle buildup once a year to make the large lock safer for juvenile salmon going through it as they migrate out to sea.`
An Emergency Response Towing Vessel (ERTV) stands ready 24/7 on the northwestern Olympic Peninsula point in the Port of Neah Bay to quickly respond to disabled or distressed vessels. But a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project to improve navigation by deepening the harbor entrance channel will improve ERTV readiness and maneuvering during low tides.
The $12 million Yakima River Gap-to-Gap Ecosystem Restoration Project will restore ecosystem process, structure, and function in the river’s gap-to-gap reach. It includes removing and realigning levees, removing spur dikes, restoring and reconnecting 320 acres of floodplains and reconnecting wetlands.
Group photo of Seattle District's debris recovery crew MV PUGET, flanked by (left) Brig. Gen. Jonathan Byrom, director of Army Safety and U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center Commanding general, and (right) Brig. Gen. Geoff Van Epps, commander of USACE, Northwestern Division. Seattle District's Commander Kathryn Sanborn stands center. Byrom recognized the crew with the Army Risk Management Award at the USACE-owned and operated Lake Washington Ship Canal and Hiram M. Chittenden Locks (Locks), Seattle, Washington, Sept. 21.

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President’s Budget includes $500 million to support Green River fish passage, water supply, flood risk management
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