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Ice Harbor Lock to Close to Boaters Next Week

by Staff
Tri-City Herald, November 8, 2012

(Jeff T. Green/Getty Images) Ice Harbor Lock and Dam on the lower Snake River near Burbank, Washington. Ice Harbor is one of four dams on the lower Snake River that environmentalists and others want to see breached in an effort to restore the dwindling salmon runs in the Pacific Nortwest. Ice Harbor Dam's navigation lock on the Snake River near Burbank will be closed to recreational boaters from Monday, a federal holiday, through Nov. 16.

Commercial navigation traffic will be allowed through the lock only during evening hours.

The closure is for channel maintenance work to remove rocks and dirt within the downstream lock approach area identified during a recent Corps survey.

Currently, there is less than the standard 14-foot depth normally available to vessels if the river's surface elevation falls below 339 feet mean sea level below Ice Harbor Dam.

LKE Corp. of Washougal has a $254,680 contract from the Army Corps of Engineers for the work.


Staff
Ice Harbor Lock to Close to Boaters Next Week
Tri-City Herald, November 8, 2012

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