Counties: Wasco

Primary Resource Concern Addressed: 

• Aquatic habitat - Aquatic habitat for fish and other organisms

Project Description
The primary goal of this proposal is to maintain and enhance the protection of salmonids, including federally threatened middle Columbia River steelhead, by replacing fish screens that are at or nearing the end of their functional use, as well as recruiting new water users to install fish screens on unscreened diversions.  New fish screens will meet National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) fish screening standards for all age classes of salmonids.   All of the screens to be replaced are self-cleaning pump screens, which provide protection for juvenile salmonids from entrainment in water diversions and have minimal or no impact on sedimentation or disturbance in the waterway.

Conservation Practices Offered

• Structure for Water Control (587)

Project Partners

• Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW)
• NRCS Oregon
• Private landowners

Application Questions
NRCS uses prioritization questions to evaluate applications for this initiative. See the list of workload prioritization questions on the Oregon EQIP page. Ranking questions below will also apply.

Ranking Questions

1. Does this application aim to replace an existing ODFW cost-shared screen in need of replacement, screen a currently unscreened diversion or replace an existing screen in need of replacement that was not cost shared with ODFW previously?
2. In which stream or reach is the project located?