ID SJM108

Idaho opposes removal or breaching of dams on the Columbia-Snake River System and its tributaries, and asserts sovereign control over state water resources.

The Columbia-Snake River System provides multiple benefits including navigation, hydropower generation (1,000 megawatts of carbon-free renewable energy annually), flood control, irrigation, and fish habitat, with a 97.5 percent average survival rate for juvenile Chinook and 99.5 percent for juvenile steelhead through the lower Snake River dams.

Approximately 10 percent of all U.S. wheat exports and about 50 percent of Idaho-grown wheat is barged through the Snake River dams from Lewiston to Portland for export markets.

Idaho prohibits contributions of water from state reservoirs for flow augmentation except those expressly authorized by state law, and requires further anadromous fish recovery efforts to be based on sound science.

The Port of Lewiston, Idaho's only seaport, provides international competitiveness, multimodal transportation, and economic development benefits to the state and Inland Northwest region.