Scientists from LGL have hydro experience working on:
- Fish bypass systems
- Fish trapping, tagging, and monitoring
- Adult and juvenile salmon passage assessments and mitigation measures
- Adult lamprey passage assessments
- Predation of outmigrating smolts by piscivorous birds
- Design, installation, and operation of fish bypass and trapping technologies at dams
- Public and Agency consultations
- Scientific study permitting
Objectives of our research and monitoring programs include:
- Impact assessment of project operations on fish, wildlife, and habitat
- Fish migration enumeration, timing, distribution, passage success, and run reconstruction
- Fish behaviour and survival
- Implementation and monitoring strategies for reservoir enhancement and remediation targeting fish, wildlife, and habitat
- Database design and management
- Expert testimony for regulatory and court proceedings
- Water use planning and reservoir management
Specialized methodologies:
- Radio-telemetry
- Acoustic-telemetry
- Hydroacoustics, including DIDSON sonar
- In-stream weirs and traps
- Underwater video monitoring
- Wetland design and creation
- Aerial survey techniques
- GIS databases and imagery
- Advanced statistics
Locations of hydroelectric experience:
- Washington State, Columbia River – Wells, Rocky Reach, Rock Island, Wanapum and Priest Rapids dams and reservoirs
- British Columbia, Columbia River – Mica, Revelstoke, and Keenleyside dams and reservoirs
- British Columbia, Peace River – W.A.C. Bennett and Peace Canyon dams and reservoirs
- British Columbia, Peace River – Site C proposal
- British Columbia, Nechako River – Kennedy Dam
- British Columbia, Alouette, Stave, Coquitlam, Ash, and Jordan river facilities
- Brazil, Parana River – Itaipu Dam
