Alaska Power and Telephone does not seem to know or care about the valuable salmon runs that feed the people, wildlife and forests of Haines.
At the public meeting held June 27 in Haines, AP&T acknowledged it did not know the effect of pouring water with varying water temperatures drawn from the bottom of Connelly Lake, run through the turbines, and deposited on the surface of Chilkoot Lake. This could adversely affect phytoplankton, fry and returning salmon…