Did You Know...

. . . that the recently repaired Fern Ridge Dam on the Long Tom River in Oregon helped prevent possible flooding during January rainstorms? Fern Ridge, along with 10 other reservoirs in the Willamette Valley, operated as designed to prevent flooding. All projects were reduced to a minimum outflow to capture as much flow as possible and reduce flows at all major control points. "Without the dams, the flows at Salem would have exceeded the levels we saw in February 1996," said Julie Ammann of the Corps of Engineers Reservoir Control Center. "Our projects stored a lot of water." Fern Ridge filled to about 80 percent of capacity during the rainstorm.