BPA Fish and Wildlife FY 1997 Proposal
Section 1. Administrative
Section 2. Narrative
Section 3. Budget
see CBFWA and BPA funding recommendations
Section 1. Administrative
Title of project
Teanaway River Instream Flow Restoration
BPA project number 5510900
Business name of agency, institution or organization requesting funding
Yakama Indian Nation
Sponsor type WA-Tribe
Proposal contact person or principal investigator
| Name | Lynn Hatcher | |
| Mailing address | P.O. Box 151
Toppenish, WA 98948 | |
| Phone | 509/865-6262 |
BPA technical contact ,
Biological opinion ID
NWPPC Program number 7.8E, 7.8G.2
Short description
Restoration of instream flows in the Teanaway River through the lease or purchase of land and water rights.
Project start year 1997 End year
Start of operation and/or maintenance 1999
Project development phase Implementation
Section 2. Narrative
Related projects
8812000: Yakima Natural Production and Enhancement: The proposed would increase the effectiveness of the Yakima Fisheries Project by providing additional passage and rearing habitat for spring chinook and summer steelhead. A spring chinook acclimation facility is already planned for the Teanaway River.
Project history
Biological results achieved
Annual reports and technical papers
Management implications
Specific measureable objectives
The project objective is to reestablish a Teanaway River spring chinook run of up to 4,000 adults, which was the estimated run size before 1910. The planned Teanaway spring chinook acclimation facility would help accelerate achievement of this goal. Specifically, the project would remove the major transportation obstacle for spring chinook, and increase the quantity and quality of juvenile spring chinook and summer steelhead rearing habitat.
Testable hypothesis
Underlying assumptions or critical constraints
Methods
Irrigation diversions dry up the Teanaway River in the late summer and early fall. We plan to lease or purchase irrigated land and/or water rights to provide reliable instream flows during this period. This in turn would provide transportation and rearing habitat for spring chinook and summer steelhead. The Teanaway River drainage contains considerable unused spawning and rearing habitat for anadromous fish. Fall-spawning anadromous fish currently have little or no access to this habitat.
Brief schedule of activities
1997: Map irrigation systems and irrigated lands. Begin appraisal process, and begin acquiring land and water rights.
1998: Conclude acquisition process.
Biological need
The Teanaway River was once a significant production area for Yakima spring chinook, steelhead and coho. Low summer and fall flows in the lower mainstem block access to good spawning and rearing habitat upstream from the irrigated area. The Yakima Fisheries Project objective of increased natural production of spring chinook will be less difficult to meet when obstacles to utilization of spawning and rearing habitat are removed.
Critical uncertainties
The uncertainty regarding the spring chinook population response to increased freshwater habitat is relatively small in this case. There are already indications of density dependence in the survival rate of Yakima spring chinook to the smolt stage. Furthermore, planned acclimation and release of spring chinook in the Teanaway River is expected to provide more returning adult fish to utilize newly-accessible habitat.
Summary of expected outcome
We expect a return of up to 4,000 adult spring chinook, including the contribution from the Teanaway acclimation site.
Dependencies/opportunities for cooperation
We anticipate no NEPA/SEPA requirements, or any permits beyond what is normally required for land purchase or lease.
Risks
Monitoring activity
The intensive monitoring efforts under the Yakima Fisheries Project will assess spring chinook population size and productivity in the Teanaway River, and interactions with other species.
Section 3. Budget
Data shown are the total of expense and capital obligations by fiscal year. Obligations for any given year may not equal actual expenditures or accruals within the year, due to carryover, pre-funding, capitalization and difference between operating year and BPA fiscal year.| Historic costs | FY 1996 budget data* | Current and future funding needs |
| (none) | New project - no FY96 data available | 1997: 1,680,000 1998: 1,680,000 |
* For most projects, Authorized is the amount recommended by CBFWA and the Council. Planned is amount currently allocated. Contracted is the amount obligated to date of printout.
Funding recommendations
CBFWA funding review group Bonneville Dam - Priest Rapids Dam
Recommendation Tier 1 - fund
Recommended funding level $1,680,000
BPA 1997 authorized budget (approved start-of-year budget) $1,700,000