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Prize Competitions
Reclamation awards $150,000 to winners of AMPS Challenge improving reliability in hydropower plants
Reclamation selected two top solutions for the Automated Maintenance of Protection Systems prize competition. The teams of Rahavi Brothers and Andrés Quintanilla will each receive $50,000 for their ideas to automate protection systems testing for hydropower generators and other protective relays systems. Read More → -
Prize Competitions
Reclamation launches new prize competition looking for improved precipitation measurement devices
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The Bureau of Reclamation is launching a new prize competition seeking new and improved ground-based precipitation devices. These devices should be reliable, accurate, low maintenance, and able to operate in remote areas in extreme weather conditions. The Counting Every Drop Challenge is a two-phase prize competition totaling up to $300,000 in prizes. Read More → -
California-Great Basin
Reclamation and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service launch innovative plan to aid winter-run Chinook salmon amid extreme drought
The Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service are partnering to protect winter-run Chinook salmon in a crucial year of their life cycle at the Livingston Stone National Fish Hatchery and third consecutive drought year in California. Read More → -
Missouri Basin and Arkansas-Rio Grande-Texas Gulf Regions
Reclamation celebrates 120th Anniversary with ribbon cutting event for the Lower Yellowstone Fish Bypass Channel
The Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers co-hosted an official ribbon cutting ceremony for the completion of the Lower Yellowstone Intake Diversion Dam Fish Passage Project and celebrated Reclamation’s 120th Anniversary, July 26, near Glendive, Montana. Read More → -
Lower Colorado Basin Region
Statement: Confirmation of fire at Hoover Dam
At approximately 10 a.m. (PDT) on July 19, the A5 transformer at Hoover Dam caught fire and was extinguished by the Reclamation/Hoover fire brigade at approximately 10:30 a.m. There are no injuries to visitors or employees. There is no risk to the power grid and power is still being generated from the powerhouse. Read More → -
Missouri Basin and Arkansas-Rio Grande-Texas Gulf Regions
Public Service Announcement: Zebra Mussels in Pactola Reservoir
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Reclamation advises that Zebra mussels, Dreissena polymorpha, have been discovered in Pactola Reservoir in southwestern South Dakota. Read More → -
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