Overview of Fish Passage Facilities at Hydropower Developments across the Conterminous United States

Matson, Paul; Bozeman, Bryan; DeRolph, Christopher

doi:10.21951/Fish_Passage_Webmap_Dataset_V1/2563190

Title: Overview of Fish Passage Facilities at Hydropower Developments across the Conterminous United States

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This dataset contains geo-referenced information on the presence and types of fish passage facilities at hydropower developments across the conterminous United States (CONUS) presented in the ORNL Hydropower Fish Passage Database Webmap (https://www.ornl.gov/project/quantifying-national-fish-passage-data/webmap). It was developed through collaborative partnerships with fish passage engineers and biologists at both the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), and hydropower experts at the Low Impact Hydropower Institute (LIHI). Information contained within this dataset has been provided by many different sources, including State and Federal resource management agencies, non-governmental organizations, hydropower industry members, and published datasets=. This dataset is intended to provide a high-level overview of the distribution of fish passage infrastructure at hydropower developments across CONUS; a more comprehensive database is anticipated to be released later in 2025. This dataset contains one data file in comma-separate (*.csv) format and the information within it was last updated on 24 March 2025.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Publication Date:: Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2025

Other Number(s):: 1

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Water Power Technologies Office

Subject:: 13 HYDRO ENERGY

OSTI Identifier:: 2563190

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21951/Fish_Passage_Webmap_Dataset_V1/2563190

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                    Matson, Paul, Bozeman, Bryan, and DeRolph, Christopher. Overview of Fish Passage Facilities at Hydropower Developments across the Conterminous United States.  United States: N. p., 2025. 
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                    Matson, Paul, Bozeman, Bryan, & DeRolph, Christopher. Overview of Fish Passage Facilities at Hydropower Developments across the Conterminous United States.  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.21951/Fish_Passage_Webmap_Dataset_V1/2563190

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                    Matson, Paul, Bozeman, Bryan, and DeRolph, Christopher. 2025.  
"Overview of Fish Passage Facilities at Hydropower Developments across the Conterminous United States".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.21951/Fish_Passage_Webmap_Dataset_V1/2563190.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2563190. Pub date:Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2025

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  title        = {Overview of Fish Passage Facilities at Hydropower Developments across the Conterminous United States},

  author       = {Matson, Paul and Bozeman, Bryan and DeRolph, Christopher},

  abstractNote = {This dataset contains geo-referenced information on the presence and types of fish passage facilities at hydropower developments across the conterminous United States (CONUS) presented in the ORNL Hydropower Fish Passage Database Webmap (https://www.ornl.gov/project/quantifying-national-fish-passage-data/webmap). It was developed through collaborative partnerships with fish passage engineers and biologists at both the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), and hydropower experts at the Low Impact Hydropower Institute (LIHI). Information contained within this dataset has been provided by many different sources, including State and Federal resource management agencies, non-governmental organizations, hydropower industry members, and published datasets=. This dataset is intended to provide a high-level overview of the distribution of fish passage infrastructure at hydropower developments across CONUS; a more comprehensive database is anticipated to be released later in 2025. This dataset contains one data file in comma-separate (*.csv) format and the information within it was last updated on 24 March 2025.},

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  year         = {Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2025},

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