Dams sees high spring flows

Water rushes out of the spillway at Lower Granite Dam Tuesday afternoon. With spring river flows unusually high this year, dams along the Snake and Columbia Rivers have had to spill almost as much water as they send through turbines for electrical generation. Rob Lustig, maintenance chief at Lower Granite, said the flow pictured above was rushing through at 45,000 cubic feet per second. Lustig said that flow represents just less than half of the 754 megawatts of power the dam was generating at the time....