Echo reservoir

[Leaky33]

Echo is now at 22% and still going down rapidly!!!! What's this going to do to the fish population and the down stream fish population?? How far can this go w/o big time impacts on game fish? What are the plans? Do they consider our valued fishery impacts or is it inevitable for damn repairs? [frown][frown]
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[a_bow_nut]

It's going to be some tough times for that area for awhile.

Found the article talking about the work on the dam.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/544970...e.html.csp
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[Leaky33]

Yeah, I read that too. Trouble is that it anin't very informative as to how far they are going to drain and the affect on fish habitat. I can make a good guess though.
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[Flyfishinglover]

So they are Gona drain the whole tire place till its bone dry? As well are they Gona change the limit or it's Gona stay the same and let those fish dye with the lake and go to waste???
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[Jazzperch1]

lets hope not, i dont think it will go bone dry but it will keep dropping, its hard to say that it will go complety empty. itll get lower but there will be some water in it still.
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[Flyfishinglover]

But still that sucks imagine in what pressure all those fishes up there are getting into.
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[RockyRaab]

We had those same fears when they drained Pineview nearly dry some years back for dam repair. Both it and the Ogden River bounced right back. Don't ask me how, but they did.

I failed to take advantage of by taking lots of photos - if I had, I'd know all the structure now.
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[Flyfishinglover]

Ya gota hate the dam repairs but gota do what they gota do. Let's hope the population will grow back.
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[a_bow_nut]

It will always come back once it is filled back up.

It just takes time.

It would be interesting to see how many people start pulling out more smallmouths as they move on down the river.
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[Flyfishinglover]

Ya true. Lol ya small bass go anywhere they want up and down stream XD
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[FishingLunatic]

Well hopefully the fish will be smart and swim where the river comes in. Where the river comes in and flows throughout, it should be at least deep enough for them to swim.
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[Browntrout]

Ivan Ray, manager of the Weber River Water Users Association, said the goal is to drop the water level to 4,770 acre feet of water by Aug. 15. Capacity is nearly 74,000 acre feet.
"It's a third full now and dropping a foot a day," Ray said. While that upstream berm is under construction from October to early December, Ray said the reservoir will be at its lowest level since it was built.
Ray said he has 12,500 acre-feet of water stored in Rockport Reservoir to help against any water crunch, and he's hopeful the winter will bring much-needed precipitation to bolster water supplies going into the spring. Work on the spillway to modify it for earthquakes won't begin until late summer of 2013, in time to have it functioning for the spring runoff in 2014.
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[Leaky33]

If I calculate correctly the lowest level would be about 6.5% of full. According to [url "http://www.doi.gov/"]U.S. Department of the Interior[/url] | [url "http://www.usbr.gov/"]Bureau of Reclamation[/url] the reservoir is now at 21% and dropping fast. [frown] Like I and others have said, you got to do what you go to do". Still hurts!!!! [frown]
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[Troll]

Yep, really low and at daybreak there are lots and lots of fish jumping.

The ramp is way out of the water, both times I went by in the past week there were full sized ski boats out on it, From the view area it looks like they launch with 4wd to the east of the ramp and make it. Course if you spinn and get stuck it's gonna take a long cable and a winch or a tractor to get you out.

Perfect time for Tubers, Toons, Canoes and Kayaks as well as 12' aluminums to ply the waters. The lake is 1/3 of it's size so it's like it has 3 times the fish in it.

Also perfect time to stop at the view pull off and really look the lake over with bino's to get the structure firmly fixed in your head. Learn the rock piles, the rocky points, the channel path and the humps near the dam outlet. The rocks on the SE side are very prominent and this is very good information.

As for bouncing back, hopefully it will get some brush growing along the lowered shore and refill, if that happens it will repopulate quickly. Thing is with fish is they will populate fast given good conditions, the population will grow to the capacity of the water
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