SG old WDG took the money set aside to rear a required number of Steelhead smolt but used a hunk of it to rebuild Aberdeen Lake Hatchery. They were allowed to do this by guaranteeing to produce the smolt regardless of funding for the life of the dam in writing.

Now WDFW has twice tried to get away from that but the in writing thing stopped them. It is the TCL funds in trust for further mitigation that have been setting for over 20 years.

I think you captured the rest of Springer thing about right on.