The governor’s decision sets up three scenarios. Residents should expect at least modest changes to partially restore Eklutna River, though there’s potential for something much more ambitious.

All five species of salmon once called Eklutna River, Eklutna Lake and the surrounding streams home. Since 1955, the Eklutna Lake dam has diverted all water and blocked salmon from migrating into ...

Apr. 21—As Southcentral Alaska electric utilities push forward with a much-contested plan to reduce the impacts of a hydroelectric project on fish and wildlife, the Native Village of Eklutna is ...

The plan would bypass the dam and send water back down 11 of 12 miles of the Eklutna River. But some want to see the river fully restored.

Feb. 19—Three Southcentral Alaska utilities that own the Eklutna Hydroelectric Project rejected the Anchorage Assembly's recent call for a two-year halt to their proposed program to restore ...

The Assembly and Native Village of Eklutna have called for full restoration of the river and have opposed the utilities' draft plan, which would leave 1 mile of the 12-mile river dry, and would ...

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The Chugach and Matanuska electric associations and Anchorage's hydropower utility own the dam at the base of Eklutna Lake, which dries up the 12-mile river. Last fall, as part of a legally ...