When the first timber crib dam was built in 1906 the salmon officially ceased to exist in Lake Cle Elum, which is 80 miles east of Seattle. To further seal their fate, in 1933, the crib dam was ...

Unlike most reservoirs on the Columbia River, Lake Cle Elum water levels vary wildly, as much as 60 feet, depending on snow melt, drought and water demand downstream. So Bureau of Reclamation ...

People have until Nov. 25 to comment on a proposed project that would raise the Lake Cle Elum reservoir by 3 feet.

A proposal that would provide fish passage at Lake Cle Elum Dam for the first time in more than a century has been released for public comment.

Garco Construction, Inc has won a contract valued at almost US$76 million from the US Bureau of Reclamation for construction services as part of the Cle Elum Dam Fish Passage Project.

Federal officials have adopted a plan for adding a fish ladder at Lake Cle Elum and reopening miles of spawning habitat for salmon and other fish above the dam northwest of Cle Elum.

Christensen says that led them to move forward with the Cle Elum Fish Passage Facilities, a $200 million project funded by the State Department of Ecology and Bureau of Reclamation, that will allow ...

LAKE CLE ELUM - A crowd of guests lined the shore, some with cameras or smartphones in hand, craning for a look at what members of the Yakama Nation have waited more than a century to see.

The Bureau of Reclamation began testing a new intake and helix fish passage system this summer near Cle Elum. Eventually, it will allow sockeye salmon and other fish to go ...

Slightly more than 10,000 adult sockeye salmon just arrived in Lake Cle Elum, their upstream migration diverted by a tanker truck ride courtesy of Yakama Nation Fisheries.

CLE ELUM - State and federal agencies are looking for public comments on options to construct fish passage facilities at Lake Cle Elum Dam and to restore fish runs above the dam in Upper Kittitas ...