From Northwestern Energy…
“The intake rehabilitation is currently scheduled for completion at the end of the summer. Upon substantial completion of the work on the intake, river flow will be transitioned from the spillway to the new intake gates. This change is expected to return downstream water temperatures to what they were previously and aquatic insect populations will gradually return to those observed before the intake repairs began in 2008.”
This sounds like good news. Time will tell. It has been seven long years of uncertainty since the dam blew out in August, 2008. Fingers crossed for the Madison Valley and thousands of trout. Northwestern Energy…the future is in your hands.