Author: Steve Hunter

A total of $500 million to build a downstream fish passage facility at Howard Hanson Dam along the Green River is part of President Joe Biden’s proposed federal budget for 2025. Biden released a $7.3 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2025 on Monday, March 11. Congress must approve the budget. The dam, about 25 miles east of Kent, helps protect the Green River Valley communities of Auburn, Kent, Tukwila and Renton, who depend on the earthen dam, built in 1961, to protect their lives and their work from flooding. The dam continues to be a barrier to salmon migration.…