Ba ckgrounder An introduction to the Fish & Wildlife Co mpensation Program – Colu mbia Basin Contents Need . .1 Solution . .1 Mandate . .3 Results . .4 This Year’s Approved Projects 5 Funding Applications . .7 The Need – An Historical Overview In 1962 the Provincial Government created a new In addition to these dams constructed under the Crown corporation – BC Hydro – to develop hydro - Treaty, BC Hydro operates other power facilities in electric projects in the Peace and Columbia River the Columbia Basin – on behalf of the Provincial regions. In the following decades, BC Hydro acted Government – including: Aberfeldie, Elko, Kootenay on behalf of the Provincial Government to design, Canal, Revelstoke, Seven Mile, Spillimacheen, build and operate several ambitious hydroelectric Walter Hardman and Whatshan. projects. Some impacts from dam construction, including Construction of BC Hydro’s dams and generating flooding and the creation of reservoirs, were stations in the Canadian portion of the Columbia immediately evident, such as the Seven Mile dam River Basin began in the 1960s with the Columbia development that flooded white-tailed deer habitat River Treaty projects. Three Treaty dams were in the Pend d’Oreille Valley. Other impacts, such as developed to provide water storage (flood preven - the decline in lake productivity that occurred when tion) and power generation for the United States. nutrients became trapped upstream by dams, took several decades before becoming evident. By 1990, Columbia River Treaty Dams built by BC Hydro : for example, kokanee stocks in the South Arm of •Duncan Dam (water storage) Kootenay Lake were virtually non-existent. •Hugh Keenleyside Dam (water storage) •Mica Dam (powerhouse and water storage) The Solution – Fish & Wildlife Compensation Program Up until 1995 efforts to compensate for these fish projects aimed at species impacted by the “foot - and wildlife losses were being handled by a variety print” of BC Hydro dams in the Canadian po rtion of of locally-based compensation programs. In 1995 the Columbia Basin. (i.e., footprint means the initial the Fish & Wildlife Compensation Program construction and impoundment impacts primarily (Columbia Basin) was created, amalgamating the associated with lost habitat). existing Mica, Revelstoke, Hugh Keenleyside, Duncan and Seven Mile compensation programs. In 1995 the newly created FWCP consolidated Compensation efforts around the smaller dams in efforts, resulting in a comprehensive and integrated the East Kootenay were also incorporated into this approach towards fish and wildlife conservation and new, consolidated regional entity. enhancement. As part of its water license agreement, BC Hydro The FWCP is a joint initiative, separate from – but provides the FWCP with $3.2 million each year not independent of – BC Hydro, the Government of (indexed for inflation based on 1995 dollars) in British Columbia (Ministry of Environment), and the perpetuity to deliver conservation and enhancement Federal Government (Fisheries and Oceans Canada). 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Columbia River Basin Annual FWCP funding is used to fund and support fish and wildlife projects. Applications for funding are reviewed annually. Visit the FWCP Mica Dam website for complete N information on project BC Revelstoke Dam funding criteria, as well Spillimacheen Dam Coursier Dam Kootenay Canal Generating Station as small- and large-proj - A South Slocan Dam Arrow Lakes Duncan Dam B Lower Bonnington Dam ect funding applications. Whatsham Dam C Upper Bonnington Dam CD D Corra Linn Dam Brilliant Dam AB www.fwcp.ca Kootenay Aberfeldie Dam VANCOUVER Keenleyside Dam Lake a Elko Dam Canad Waneta Dam Seven Mile Dam . The work of the FWCP VICTORIA Libby Dam U.S is guided by Policy and Grand Coulee Hungry Horse Chief Joseph Albeni Falls Flathead Noxon Lake BC Hydro Dams Steering Committees Wells Pend Orielle Kent Columbia Power made up of Program Rocky Reach Lake SEATTLE Corporation/ Partners – BC Hydro, the Rock Island Lower Monumental Columbia Basin Little Goose MT Trust Dam B.C. Ministry of Wanapum Lower Grande Priest Rapids Dams owned by Environment (MoE), and Dworshak others in Canada Fisheries and Oceans Corps of Engineers WA Dams Canada. Public and Ice Harbour PORTLAND McNary Dams owned by First Nations John Day others in U.S Hells Canyon representatives The Dalles Bureau of Oxbow Reclamation Dams Bonneville participate on the Brownlee Steering Committee Jackson Lake and help ensure the Boise Projects FWCP is aware of, OR ID and responding to public concerns and input.