Barrier Site: Eagle Creek National Fish Hatchery
Eagle Creek National Fish Hatchery

Location: Estacada, Oregon

Year: 2002

Barrier Type: Bottom mounted steel rail electrodes on a concrete deck with a low-water bypass channel.

Pulsators: 6ea. - 1.5KVA POW

Status: The barrier is used to block upstream migration of spawning salmon. The entrance to the fish hatchery is below the fish barrier. The salmon are used for fish hatchery egg production. There are currently four Smith-Root fish barriers in the Pacific Northwest used at Salmon hatcheries.