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The formal process takes a minimum of five years, but PUD Hydro Licensing Manager Janel Ulrich says they've been Chelan preparing since 2021.

Juvenile Chinook salmon traveling downstream had a survival rate of almost 94 percent while almost 100 percent of adult fish traveling back upstream survived.

Organizers are trying to assemble as many electric vehicles as possible in one place with the gathering.

The festival is meant to celebrate the return of salmon into the river system to spawn after years in the Pacific Ocean.

The Seattle area utility will purchase five percent of the total output from the PUD's Rock Island and Rocky Reach dams for five years at a fixed rate.