https://www.nwd.usace.army.mil Northwestern Division News RSS Feed en-us Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:59:00 GMT Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:16:12 GMT https://www.nwd.usace.army.mil/media/news-stories/article/4341924/hydropower-helps-feed-thanksgiving-feasts/ This Thursday, people across the Pacific Northwest will use ovens to bake turkeys, air fryers to crisp vegetables, mixers to fluff mashed potatoes and OLED televisions to gawk at parades and sportsball. Likely, many people are grateful for the conveniences that make Thanksgiving preparations and entertainment relatively easy and enjoyable. However, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers humbly recommends giving appreciation for consistent, affordable and easily dispatchable hydropower (of course, USACE would suggest that).<br/> <img src='https://media.defense.gov/2025/Nov/24/2003831544/115/75/0/251119-A-EZ675-0001.JPG' alt='Graphical representation of power use on the day before Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving, 2024. Bonneville Power Administration BPA staff have referred to this phenomenon as the “turkey bulge.”' /> <br /> Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:59:00 GMT Tom Conning https://www.nwd.usace.army.mil/media/news-stories/article/4341924/hydropower-helps-feed-thanksgiving-feasts/ Dams Hydropower Infrastructure Civil Works Hydropower U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Northwestern Division https://www.nwd.usace.army.mil/media/news-stories/article/3387951/juvenile-salmon-benefit-from-spring-spill/ In April, the Northwestern Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started spilling water on the Snake and Columbia rivers to help juvenile salmon migrate downstream. We met up with Julie Ammann, Reservoir Control Center chief at Bonneville Lock & Dam to check it out.<br/> <img src='https://media.defense.gov/2023/Mar/30/2003189598/115/75/0/210602-A-EZ675-0001.JPG' alt='Bonneville Dam spills water to benefit juvenile salmon, June 2, 2021. This year, federal water managers will spill hundreds of thousands of gallons of water over spillways instead of through turbines during annual “spring spill” operations at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ dams on the lower Snake and Columbia rivers. The operations start April 3 on the lower Snake River and April 10 on the lower Columbia River. These actions are intended to decrease the time it takes juvenile salmon and steelhead to move through the system of dams to the Pacific Ocean as well as provide a non-turbine passage route past the dams.' /> <br /> Mon, 08 May 2023 16:47:00 GMT Pentagon News https://www.nwd.usace.army.mil/media/news-stories/article/3387951/juvenile-salmon-benefit-from-spring-spill/ Columbia Basin Dams Environmental Hydropower U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Northwestern Division https://www.nwd.usace.army.mil/media/news-stories/article/2460508/hydropower-mathematician-brings-energy-to-new-position/ In the wet world of hydropower, a former math teacher has just donned a watery mantle to meet the changing demands of one of the oldest sources of energy.<br/> <img src='https://media.defense.gov/2020/Dec/30/2002559281/115/75/0/201015-A-A1408-0001.PNG' alt='Headshot of a man with a short beard. He is wearing glasses, a light-gray suit, baby-blue shirt and dark tie.' /> <br /> Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:46:00 GMT Kerry Solan https://www.nwd.usace.army.mil/media/news-stories/article/2460508/hydropower-mathematician-brings-energy-to-new-position/ Hydropower U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Northwestern Division