Monday February 3, 2025
Castanet.net —
The Okanagan Nation Alliance is advising residents that there will be detours and temporarily closures to river access by the Penticton Dam, as they work to create fish passage into Okanagan Lake.
Access will be closed off at the pathway next to Local Landing along the west side of the river from February to May 2025.
The Okanagan Lake Dam East Salmon Passage Project aims to help with the return of the historical range of sockeye in the upper Okanagan watershed, Okanagan Lake, and Skaha Lake systems — part of the Columbia River Basin.
A fish ladder was installed in the Penticton dam in 2019 to give sockeye an access point for the first time in 50 years, and ONA saw returns of fish using the ladder the following year.