Enhance and maintain a healthy, sustainable hatchery that produces fish in adequate numbers to meet requirements, maximizes fish health, and minimizes unintended fish passage impediments. This includes a sufficient, diverse water supply; water conservation; and infrastructure upgrades.
For nearly 100 years, five high lake reservoirs located in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness have provided water supplies for agriculture and fish production. The outlet structures that control the release of water from these lakes, were constructed between 1929 and 1949 and are now outdated.
The Leavenworth Fisheries Complex comprises three hatcheries located in Leavenworth, Winthrop, and Entiat, Washington. The hatcheries and associated facilities were constructed by Reclamation from 1939 to 1941 as mitigation for the construction of Grand Coulee Dam.
The signature conservation project being developed at the hatchery is a water reuse system called Partial Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (pRAS).
COIC has continuously diverted water from Icicle Creek at river mile 4.5 through a shared diversion with the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery (LNFH) since 1940.
