Here the deal!

Power rates are higher then hell right now and its going nowhere but up! Tacoma is pulling huge amounts of electricity to satisfy their rate payers during the working days of the week and shutting it down on the weekends. Tacoma could care less about fish or sport fishing! Tacoma is generating its own power instead of paying the "premium price" for power from the power grid during the week. You can expect to see this happen every time it gets this hot!

There is only 1342 cfs coming into the Cowlitz Fall Reservoir right now. The Cowlitz Fall dams is "banking" that water until they can generate power and operate there turbines at about 2900 cfs. Tacoma is running their projects right now on what is coming in at Cowlitz Falls plus what they can "bank" when they drop the flows on the week ends when electricity demands are low.

It 1000000% about Tacoma Power's greed and need to make money for themselves and to have "cheap power" for their own rate payers.

That is what's really going on with the water flows.

Cowlitzfisherman