The effects of turbine passage on C-start behavior of salmon at the Wanapum Dam, Washington

Technical Report · Thu Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 2006

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1218169· OSTI ID:1218169

Cada, Glenn F. ^[1]; Ryon, Michael G. ^[1]; Smith, John G. ^[1]; Luckett, Cloe A. ^[2]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
2. Oak Ridge Inst. for Science and Education (ORISE), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

In 2005, Grant County Public Utility District No. 2 (GCPUD) replaced one of the 10 Kaplan turbines at Wanapum Dam with an advanced turbine that was developed with support from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Hydropower Turbine System Program. Compared to a conventional Kaplan turbine, the advanced minimum gap runner (MGR) turbine is predicted to have lower values for several potential fish injury mechanisms, and therefore was expected to improve turbine-passage fish survival. Fish survival tests of the new turbine were carried out by GCPUD between February and April 2005. A total of 8,960 tagged juvenile summer Chinook salmon were used to quantify the differences in direct mortality associated with turbine passage for the new and old turbines. There were few test conditions in which the study was noted a distinct difference between the old Kaplan turbine and the new MGR turbine on the basis of changes in the escape behavior of uninjured fish.

• Research Organization: EERE Publication and Product Library, Washington, D.C. (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind and Water Technologies Office (EE-4W)
• OSTI ID: 1218169
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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13 HYDRO ENERGY
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Advanced Hydropower Turbine System
Chinook
Grant County
Kaplan
MGR
advanced
behavior
escape
fish
injury
juvenile
minimum gap runner
passage
public utility
salmon
survival
turbine(s)