November 8, 2007--Work on fish passage on Colorado River to begin this year (AOL)
Endangered fish that for nearly a century have been kept from swimming up the Colorado River by an 8-foot high irrigation dam will soon get relief in the form of a $10 million fish passage. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation officials said the Price-Stubb Dam, which was built in 1911, will have a notch cut into it by year's end to allow construction of a 600-foot-long channel. Doing so would allow the Colorado pikeminnow and razorback sucker to navigate several miles of river. The fishes' critical habitat stretches from Lake Powell in Utah to Rifle.
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