News Release
| Release Number: | 97-091 |
| Dated: | 8/18/1997 |
| Contact: | Heidi Y. Helwig, 503-808-4510 |
Portland, Ore. -- Reporters or other news media representatives who wish to follow the path juvenile fish will take at the John Day Smolt Sampling and Monitoring facility are asked to meet at 9 a.m. on Aug. 19 at the John Day Lock and Dam conference room above the powerhouse. Please call Heidi Helwig or Matt Rabe at (503) 808-4510 as soon as possible if you plan to attend.
Still in the final phases of construction, the facility and its capabilities will give researchers the much needed scientific "inside line" to understand more about anadromous fisheries. Survival data compiled at the project will provide information for in-season and long-term management of the river system to improve salmon survival. In addition, a variety of other research work relevant to all migrating fish species will be done at this facility. Juvenile salmon moving downriver during the 1998 spring migration will be the first to use the facility.
To get to John Day Dam on the Columbia River near Rufus, Ore., take exit 109 off of Interstate 84 and follow the signs. If you're leaving the Portland area for John Day Dam, allow about 2 1/2 hours for travel. Because the site is a construction zone, visitors must wear hard hats and duable shoes (no tennis shoes allowed.)