Hydroacoustic Evaluation of Juvenile Salmonid Passage at The Dalles Dam Spillway, 2006
Abstract
The objective of this study was to determine detailed vertical, horizontal, intensive, and diel distributions of juvenile salmonid passage at the spillway at The Dalles Dam from April 12 to July16, 2006. These data are being applied in the Spillway Improvements Program to position release pipes for direct injury and mortality studies and to provide baseline data for assessment of the vortex suppression devices scheduled for deployment in 2007. We estimated fish distributions from hydroacoustic data collected with split-beam transducers arrayed across Bays 1 through 9 and 14. Spill at ~20 kcfs per bay was bulked at Bays 1-6, although the other bays were opened at times during the study to maintain a 40% spill percentage out of total project discharge. The vertical distribution of fish was skewed toward the surface during spring, but during summer, passage peaked at 2-3 m above the spillway ogee. Fish passage rates (number per hour) and fish densities (number per kcfs) were highest at Bay 6, followed by passage at Bay 5. This result comports with spillway horizontal distribution data from radio telemetry and hydroacoustic studies in 2004. The vertical and horizontal distribution of fish passage at bays 5 and 6 was much moremore »
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 909248
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-16458
400403209; TRN: US200722%%1053
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 13 HYDRO ENERGY; SALMON; JUVENILES; MORTALITY; SPILLWAYS; FISH PASSAGE FACILITIES; MONITORING; ACOUSTIC TESTING; Hydroacoustics; Fish Passage; Dams
Citation Formats
Johnson, Gary E., Khan, Fenton, Skalski, John R., Rakowski, Cynthia L., Richmond, Marshall C., and Serkowski, John A. Hydroacoustic Evaluation of Juvenile Salmonid Passage at The Dalles Dam Spillway, 2006. United States: N. p., 2007.
Web. doi:10.2172/909248.
Johnson, Gary E., Khan, Fenton, Skalski, John R., Rakowski, Cynthia L., Richmond, Marshall C., & Serkowski, John A. Hydroacoustic Evaluation of Juvenile Salmonid Passage at The Dalles Dam Spillway, 2006. United States. doi:10.2172/909248.
Johnson, Gary E., Khan, Fenton, Skalski, John R., Rakowski, Cynthia L., Richmond, Marshall C., and Serkowski, John A. Thu .
"Hydroacoustic Evaluation of Juvenile Salmonid Passage at The Dalles Dam Spillway, 2006". United States.
doi:10.2172/909248. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/909248.
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title = {Hydroacoustic Evaluation of Juvenile Salmonid Passage at The Dalles Dam Spillway, 2006},
author = {Johnson, Gary E. and Khan, Fenton and Skalski, John R. and Rakowski, Cynthia L. and Richmond, Marshall C. and Serkowski, John A.},
abstractNote = {The objective of this study was to determine detailed vertical, horizontal, intensive, and diel distributions of juvenile salmonid passage at the spillway at The Dalles Dam from April 12 to July16, 2006. These data are being applied in the Spillway Improvements Program to position release pipes for direct injury and mortality studies and to provide baseline data for assessment of the vortex suppression devices scheduled for deployment in 2007. We estimated fish distributions from hydroacoustic data collected with split-beam transducers arrayed across Bays 1 through 9 and 14. Spill at ~20 kcfs per bay was bulked at Bays 1-6, although the other bays were opened at times during the study to maintain a 40% spill percentage out of total project discharge. The vertical distribution of fish was skewed toward the surface during spring, but during summer, passage peaked at 2-3 m above the spillway ogee. Fish passage rates (number per hour) and fish densities (number per kcfs) were highest at Bay 6, followed by passage at Bay 5. This result comports with spillway horizontal distribution data from radio telemetry and hydroacoustic studies in 2004. The vertical and horizontal distribution of fish passage at bays 5 and 6 was much more variable during spring than summer and more variable at bay 5 than bay 6. Diel distribution data revealed that fish passage was highest during 0600-0700 h in spring; otherwise passage was reasonably uniform on a diel basis. This study substantiates the purpose of the spillway vortex suppression device to re-distribute downstream migrants away from Bay 6 toward Bays 1-5.},
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year = {Thu May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2007},
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