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Projected Resource Needs
To Fulfill Ir^>le»entation Plan
Through 1992 Budget *
Agency, Operations
RFC . $ 42,800
MDNR $ 920,000
VDGIF $ 241,033
Potential
Funding
Capital Personnel Sources
$ 24,900 2 Fish Fund
(License
Revenue)
$1,242,500 9 State Funds
(Ches. Bay,
General and
Special)
Federal Funds
2 License Revenue
with matching
Federal Aid
Funds
VCOE
DCF
USFUS
NMFS
$ 30,000
$1,575,000
- 0 -
$6,000,000
$ 60,000
$170,000
- 0 -
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General Funds
L i cense
Revenue with
matching
Federal Aid
Funds
Appropriation
N/A
1.
2.
3.
4.
Operations represent cumulative needs through FY 1992 and includes current FY 1990 Funding of $180,000 plus
requested FY 1991 Funding of $323,000 and additional $417,000 need in FY 1992.
Capital costs do not include necessary costs for rehabilitation of Bloede and Daniels Dams, approximating $3.5
million; nor cost ($12.5 million) at Conowingo to be provided by Phildelphia Electric Company. Also projecting
$1,326,500 in additional private and local funds to be acquired for completion of Capital projects.
Personnel includes current FY 1990 staff (3) and requested FY 1991 staff (2), plus 4 additional, for a total
of nine by FY 1992.
See next page for cost breakdown.
State budget years through 6/30; D.C. and Federal through 9/30.
PFC
MDNR
VDGIF
VCOE
DCF
USFWS
NHFS
Pennsylvania Fish Commission
Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
Virginia Council on Environment
District of Columbia Fisheries
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
National Marine Fisheries Service
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US Fish and Wildlife Service
Projected Resource Needs
to Fulfill Implementation Plan
Through 1992 Budget Year
Agency
VFC
PRFC
CBFC
SRFC
AFO
CBEP
HLNFH
RO
Total
VFC
PRFC
CBFC
SRFC
AFO
CBEP
HLNFH
RO
Operations Capitol
$ 780,000 0
$ 225,000 0
$ 420,000 0
0 0
0 0
$ 65,000
0 $ 105,000
$ 150,000 0
$ 1,575,000 $ 170,000
Virginia Fisheries Coordinator
Potomac River Fisheries Coordinator
Chesapeake Bay Fisheries Coordinator
Susquehanna River Fisheries Coordinator
Annapolis Field Office
Chesapeake Bay Estuary Program
Harrison Lake National Fish Hatchery
Regional Office, FWS Region 5
Potent i a I
Funding
Personnel Sources
5 Appropriation
2
3
0 "
0 "
0
0 "
1 "
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AFO Annapolis Field Office (USFWS)
AG State Attorney General
BAFMP Baywide Alosid Fishery Management Plan
BFPW Baywide Fish Passage Workgroup
CBEP Chesapeake Bay Estuary Program (USFWS)
CBF Chesapeake Bay Foundation
CBFC Chesapeake Bay Fisheries Coordinator (USFWS)
CORPS US Army Corps of Engineers
DCF District of Columbia Fisheries
DOT US Department of Transportation
FERC Federal Energy Regulatory Conmission
FHA Federal Highway Administration
FMP Fishery Management Plan
FP Fish Passage
FPC Fish Passage Coordinator (VA)
HLNFH Harrison Lake National Fish Hatchery
LGAC Local Government Advisory Committee
LOCAL Municipal or County Government
MDE MD Dept. of Environment
MDNRF MD Dept. of Natural Resources--Fisheries
MDNRPPR MD Dept. of Natural Resources Power Plant Research
MDNRWRA MD Dept. of Natural Resources--Water Res. Admin.
MSHA MD State Highway Administration
NMFS National Marine Fisheries Service
NPS National Park Service
OFO Oxford Field Office (NMFS)
PDER PA Department of Environmental Resources
PDOT PA Department of Tranportation
PFC PA Fish Commission
PRFC Potomac River Fisheries Coordinator (USFWS)
PSU PA State University
RO Regional Office (USFWS or NMFS)
SFPW State Fish Passage Workgroup (MD)
SRFC Susquehanna River Fisheries Coordinator (USFWS)
USEPA US Environmental Protection Agency
USFWS US Fish and Wildlife Service
VAFRC VA Anadromous Fish Restoration Committee
VCOE VA Council on Environment
VDGIF VA Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries
VDOT VA Dept. of Transportation
VFC VA Fisheries Coordinator (USFWS)
VMRC VA Marine Resources Commission
VWCB VA Water Control Board
WHB Water Hygiene Board (DC)
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Section II:
1989 Progress Reports
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PENNSYLVANIA LIVING RESOURCES
1989 PROGRESS REPORT ON FISH PASSAGE
The Pennsylvania Fish Commission was signatory to the May 22, 1989, fish passage facility signing at
Conouingo Dam. This ceremony represented the major step necessary in the permanent reopening of the Susquehanna
River for American shad and other diadromous fishes to enter their historic spawning and nursery water in
Pennsylvania.
Although the permanent fishway installation at Conowingo will not take place until 1991, Commission
staff are already anticipating the introductions of various diadromous fishes, other than American shad, into
the Conowingo Reservoir and several larger tributaries such as Conowingo, Fishing and Muddy Creeks. These and
perhaps other tributaries will be inventoried for dam structures and other obstructions in conjunction with the
Chesapeake Bay Fish Passage Work Group activities. Fishways or other means to permit species such as the river
herrings and eels to use these waters for spawning and/or nursery habitat will be sought as soon as practicable.
The Pennsylvania Fish Commission is actively working with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Resources in having the Elk Creek Basin in Chester County properly classified for migratory fishes and water
quality purposes. The Commission has promulgated regulations to prohibit harvest river herring from Elk Creek,
over eight inches in length, to protect spawning stocks. All of these measures have been taken in a cooperative
effort with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources for the joint restoration of river herring and possible
other diadromous species in Elk Creek.
Even though permanent fish passage facilities will be constructed at Conowingo Dam for the 1991 season,
the lack of fishways at Holtwood, Safe Harbor and York Haven Dams upstream present formidable problems which
remain in the successful restoration of American shad in the Susquehanna. Because of this fact, ongoing
negotiations with the upstream hydropower project owners continue in a constructive manner, with various studies
and selection of fishway design firms taking place. An overall goal of fishways at all projects by the year
2000 is tentatively being sought.
1989 PROGRESS REPORT ON AMERICAN SHAD
RESTORATION AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Pennsylvania continued to work with other agencies and hydropower project owners on the ongoing program
of the Susquehanna River Anadromous Fish Restoration Committee (SRAFRC). A record total of 8,311 adult American
shad were taken at the Conowingo fish lift in 1989. Of this number, 6,816 prespawned fish were successfully
transported upstream and released into a f reef lowing section of the Susquehanna with suitable spawning habitat.
The Pennsylvania Fish Commission's Van Dyke Fish Cultural Station produced a record number of 21,807,577
American shad fry 20,664,645 of which were stocked into the Juniata and Susquehanna Rivers as part of the SRAFRC
program. A projected number of 60,000 fingerI ings will also be stocked from Commission facilities later this
year.
Research being conducted as part of the SRAFRC program includes continued activities in juvenile shad
marking, radiotelemetry, hydroacoustics and strobe light studies, juvenile marking has been successful in
helping differentiate fish produced by artificial culture from naturally reproduced fish from the adults moved
upstream. Radiotelemetry involves the use of small transmitters attached to both adult and juvenile fish. By
tracing transmitter activity it is possible to establish migratory and movement patterns through power project
facilities, including impoundments. This will help in the future design and operation of facilities at each
power project to improve safe passage of more adults and downroigrating juveniles. Hydroacoustic experimentation
involves the use of ultrasound monitoring through which a relative abundance index of juvenile fish passing
downstream can be annually made and it also provided detailed annual information on the timing of juvenile
outmigration patterns. Although sound generators, underwater strobe lights and mercury vapor lights were used
in a 1988 experiment to help repel juvenile shad from operating turbines and attract them to safer exits at a
project dam, only the strobe lights showed promise for further utility in controlling downmigrating juveniles.
For this reason, strobe light experimentation will continue in 1990.
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1989 PROGRESS REPORT FOR
MARYLAND FISH PASSAGE PROJECTS
Project
Completion
Stage (12/89)
Current Status of Completion
A. little Falls Dam S,D
Potomac River
B. Pierce Mill Dam P,S,M
Rock Creek
P.S
Northwest Branch
C. Dam #1
D. Dam #2
E. Dam on Northeast
Branch
F. Ft. Meade Dam,
Little Patuxent River
USGS Flow Weir
Bacon Ridge Branch
H. Culvert on North River M
I. Dam on Stony Run S
J. Dam on Deep Creek M
Bloede Dam
Patapsco River
Final engineering design completed, waiting for Corps of Engineers
and other permits to start construction process and transfer of
Port America funding to DNR.
Fish passage assessment being done under National Park Service
and DC contract with recommendations for fish passage. Need
D.C./MD/Park Service final plan and F&US conceptual design plan for
passage.
On-going work with USSC to modify dams to permit passage with their
in-house crew and funding.
F&US Service plan of fish passage completed, developer to provide
fish passage mitigation when stream crossing constructed.
Department of the Army contacted and flow measurements are in
process for conceptual fish ladder design by F&US. DNR requested
Army to budget funds for engineering design and fish ladder
construction in FY 1991.
Plan for Alaskan steep pass fish ladder cancelled due to non-stable
structure. Due to stream liming project the structure will be
removed in 1991.
Older culvert replaced with new culvert to provide for fish passage.
Seagram's requested to remove dam or provide passage.
Retention of dam chosen. A conceptual fish ladder design plan for an
Alaskan steep - pass fishway is in process.
Dam removed in spring of 1989 by SHA/DNR under cooperative effort as
mitigation enhancement for 1-95 highway crossing.
Legislature rejected $1.6 million capital budget request for dam
stablization; $200,000 approved for study to determine cost
of dam removal versus stablization and fish ladder in 1989. Study
completed in November 1989 and to be presented to General Assembly
in January.
Key - Completion Stage
P - PLANNING
S - SURVEY
H - MONITORING
D - DESIGN
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PROGRESS REPORT FOR MARYLAND FISH PASSAGE PROJECTS
December 1989 (continued)
Page 2
Proiecjt
Completion
Stage (12/89)
Current Status of Completion
"Simkins Dam,
Patapsco Riv^r
Union Dam,
Patapsco River
Daniels Dam,
Patapsco River
Dam on Winter's Run
Conowingo Dam, D,M
Susquehanna River
Dam on Northeast Creek
Culvert on Dogwood Run
Dam on Big Elk Creek A,P,S
Flow measurements for passage design completed by DNR and waiting
for FSWS conceptual fish ladder design. To meet with ownership of dam
and develop an engineering study for other alternatives to provide
fish passage. Funding arrangements to be made for passage at the
privately owned structure.
Howard County Dept. of Public Works and DNR provided engineering
design services for fish passage interim construction at breach in dam.
Construction to be completed for passage in fall of 1989 with
construction cost paid by County.
Flow measurements performed with F&WS completion of conceptual
fish ladder design. Engineering study in process to evaluate
stablization of dam and other fish passage alternatives.
Conceptual passage design plan completed by FSWS. Army has contracted
for final engineering design and construction in present budget. Design
and construction to be completed in 1990.
Engineering design plans completed for additional fish lift
capability and passage enhancements for downriver migrating fish.
PECO design plans for passage under DNR and state/federal agencies
reviews for construction permits.
Cooperative work in process with Town of Northeast and Save Our Streams
to remove collapsed dam.
Application received from Chesapeake Clean-Up Campaign with construction
completed by DNR and local groups.
A demonstration denil fish ladder and planned public access
project. Conceptual design completed for passage; DNR in process
of contracting final engineering design. Federal aid project
approved and started in 10/89 to cover final design and
construction costs by DNR/NMFS with equipment/personnel support
from City and $5,000 CBF funding for information/education at site.
Key - Completion Stage
S - SURVEY
P - PLANNING
C - CONSTRUCTION
H - MONITORING
D - DESIGN
A - APPLICATION
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PROGRESS REPORT FOR MARYLAND FISH PASSAGE PROJECTS
Decanter 1989 (continued)
Page 3
Project
T. Dam on Herring Run
U. Flow Weir on
Morgan Creek
V. USGS Flow Weir on
Beaverdam Branch
W. Culvert on Fifteen
Mile Creek
X. Dam on Tuckahoe River
Summary:
Completion
Stage (12/89)
P
M
Current Status of Completion
Site visit and evaluation completed.
Project construction completed in 1988. Fish passage notch placed
in weir with ongoing post-construction biological monitoring
planned.
Project construction completed in 1988. Fish passage notch placed
weir. Passage evaluated in 1989 and was successful; an ongoing
project.
Application received for fish passage at site; project in County
planning stage and related to SNA study of problem highway culverts
that are targeted for future passage mitigation.
Project in planning stage and to be initiated in FY 1991. The Fish
Passage project is related to the DNR German Branch stream restoration
project located on an upstream tributary.
24 Projects in Progress
(Construction completed for 5 projects).
Key - Completion Stage
P - PLANNING
M - MONITORING
A - APPLICATION
Key-Completion Stage
A-APPLICATION
P-PLANNING
S-SURVEYS
T-TRAP & TRANSPORT
D-DESIGN
C-CONSTRUCTION
M-MONITORING
0-ONGOING
Priority site or request for fish passage established.
Cooperative development of passage concept plan in progress.
Hydrographic, physical, biological, water quality, or
Fish stocking and restoration in upstream or downstream areas being performed habitat surveys and
data evaluation in process.
Conceptual or final engineering design plan for fish passage in progress.
Bidding, award, or construction work for fish passage in progress.
Biological water quality, or habitat monitoring assessments, for evaluation of fish passage and
species restorations being conducted.
Operation/maintenance, of fish passage, establishing appropriate stream classificaitons for water
quality, habit, and fisheries maintenance; reporting study results, etc.
Refer to map (Maryland Chesapeake Bay Priority Sites For Migratory Fish Passage, 1988-91) for project site locations and
summary table (1989 Progress Report for Maryland Fish Pa ssage Projects) for supplementary information and projected
completion stage.
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MARYLAND CHESAPEAKE BAY
PRIORITY SITES FOR
MIGRATORY FISH PASSAGE
1988 - 1992
(Listing Includes Completed FY89 Projects,
Plus FY90, FY91 & FY92 Projects to be Completed.)
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CODE
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SITE KEY
RlVCfl SYSTEM/
STRUCTURE
Potomac River/
Little Falls Dam
Potomac River/
Pierce Mill Dam,
Rock Creek
Potomac River/
Northwest Branch,
Dam #1
Potomac River/
Northwest Branch,
Dam #2
Potomac River/Dam
on Northeast Branch
Little Patuxent River/
Ft Meade Dam
South River/USGS
Flow Weir, Bacon
Ridge Branch
South River/Culvert
on North River
Patapsco River/
Dam on Stony Run
Patapsco River/
Dam on Deep Creek
Patapsco River/
Bloede Dam
Patapsco River/
Simkms Dam
Patapsco River/
Union Dam
Patapsco River/
Daniels Dam
Bush River/Dam on
Winter's Run
Susquehanna River/
Conowmgo Dam
Northeast River/Dam
on Northeast Creek
Elk River/Culvert on
Dogwood Run
Elk River/Dam on
Big Elk Creek
Sassafras River/
Dam on Herring Run
Chester River/
USGS Weir,
Morgan Creek
Choptank River/
USGS Weir,
Beaver Dam Branch
Potomac River/
Culvert on Fifteen
Mile Creek
Tuckahoe River/
Tuckahoe Dam
RIVER
MILE
1174
44
10
1 1
23
116
14
1.0
01
01
211
226
264
300
25
99
1.2
20
45
06
60
13
01
178
CO.
MO
DC
PG
PG
PG
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AA
AA
AA
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BA/HO
BA/HO
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BA/HO
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Nearly 100 structures are barriers to anadromous fish species
(striped bass, shad, herring and perch) in Maryland.
Smaller streams and other fish barriers on rivers and streams are not depicted
which comprise additional future fish passage projects.
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1989 PROGRESS REPORT
VIRGINIA FISH PASSAGE PROGRAM
Virginia Fish Passage Grant and Revolving Fund
The 1989 General Assembly passed legislation establishing the Virginia Fish Passage Grant and Revolving
Fund. Thje fund, to be administered by the Council on th*e Environment, will provide 75% cost share grants with
25% low-interest loans for fishway construction on municipally-owned dams. Variable interest rate loans will
be available to private dam owners. When funding is available and when the Council, the Department of Game and
Inland Fisheries and the Marine Resources Commission targets a dam for fish passage restoration and makes an
offer for financing the project, the dam owner must accept. In the event that hydroelectric power is
subsequently developed on any Revolving Fund-financed project all granted or loaned monies must be repaid to
the fund within one year of licensing.
Embrev Dam. Rappahannock River
The General Assembly appropriated $125,000 to the Revolving Fund in 1989 which was designated to be
matched equally with the city of Fredericksburg for the design of a fish way at Embrey Dam. The city has
incorporated a preliminary investigation for fish passage into a feasibility study, currently underway, to
improve or relocate its public water supply facility which now utilizes Embrey Dam. The outcome of the
feasibility study should be decided early in 1990 and will affect the fishway design.
James River Fishways
The first of three phases for fish passages at the five dams on the James River in Richmond got underway
in January, 1989. Section on the north side of Manchester and Brown's Island dams were blasted to make way for
migratory species. The project was jointly funded by the Council on the Environment ($900,000), then Department
of Game and Inland Fisheries ($140,000), and the city of Richmond ($300,000). The first phase will be completed
when hydraulic gates, currently being manufactured, are installed in the breached sections of Brown's Island
Dam. The gates are to maintain water levels behind the dam during dry seasons. The second and third phases
of the overall project will involve construction of fishways at William's Island and Bosher's Dams respectively.
A monitoring study was initiated in March to assess the effectiveness of the breaches and to determine
where the fish are approaching the next impediment five miles upstream at William's Island Dam. While
monitoring was hampered by high flows during the base of William's Dam indicate that fish were able to pass the
breached dams. Monitoring is expected to continue next spring and in the subsequent springs.Harrison Lake Fish
Hatchery (on tributary to James R.)
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service constructed a denil fishway at the Harrison Lake dam last year.
A minimal survey was conducted this by the service to determine if the structure was able to pass fish. A hoop
net placed for a short time at the top of the fishway captured a few specimens of migratory fish (lamprey, blue
back herring, and gizzard shad). The Department of Game and Inland Fisheries conducted a late summer
electroshocking survey in the lake to look for evidence of adults and juveniles which might have been still
lingering in the lake before their downstream migration. Neither adults or juveniles were found.
Walker's Dam. Chickahominy River (James R. tributary)
The city of Newport News constructed two denil fishways on Walker's Dam on the Chickahominy River, which
were operational for the first time this spring. The Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the Department
of Game and Inland Fisheries conducted monitoring studies throughout the spawning season to determine whether
the fishways were functional. Using electroshocking techniques, the Department observed large numbers of
herring above and below the dam. The VIMS also observed significant numbers of herring coming through the denil
fishways. Fishermen were also observed netting herring as they came out of the upper end of the fishway.
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PROGRESS REPORT
ON
FISH PASSAGE IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
FOR 1989
In 1989, the District of Columbia's Fisheries Management Program have been involved with several fish
passage projects' in the Washington metropolitan area. The major projects this year have been the negotiations
for a fish ladder at the Little Fall Dam, and fish passage studies in Rock Creek Park. The District is
committed to improving fish passage on both a local and regional scale. Our fisheries resources managers
understand how important it is to improve fish passage regionally and what it will mean to the District's
fisheries. The District's Fisheries Management Program has also been participating in the development of the
Chesapeake Bay Fish Passage Implementation Strategy.
Fisheries resource managers from the District of Columbia, the state of Maryland and several federal
agencies have been working to provide passage at the municipal water supply dam at Little Falls. This dam
presently excludes migratory fishes from 10 miles of valuable Potomac River habitat. While just outside of
D.C. borders, fish passage at the dam would help restore historic levels of migratory fishes to District waters.
The D.C. Fisheries Management Program is working with the Army Corps of Engineers and the National Park
Service to study fish passage issues in Rock Creek Park. The Corps has completed a study for the District that
included recommendations for removing impediments south of Pierce Mill Dam and the possibility a fish ladder
at the dam. The National Park Service at Rock Creek Park has contracted a two year anadromous and resident fish
migration study. This study will provide information on fish migration in Rock Creek Park and how the
impediments are affecting passage.
The District also supports efforts to restore passage in the Anacostia River basin. Although the
primary blockages on the Anacostia are outside the District, this is another opportunity for the District to
benefit from upstream improvements. The District's fisheries managers lend their support to the Interstate
Commission on the Potomac River Basin and the Corps which are studying ways to improve fish passage. Currently
they are studying approximately 25 small blockages which limit spawning habitat for migratory fish.
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