Ballard locks closed on Tuesday
If you commute via boat through the locks you’ll have to find alternate means of transportation on Tuesday, as the locks will be closed for 12 hours in order to help the salmon. They’ll be installing an “interim Adult Salmon Exclusion Structure”–basically a big screen–over the mechanism that flushes salt water from Puget Sound into the lake [PI].
Apparently, for unknown reasons, more and more salmon are getting caught and killed in the system. Chinook salmon are just one type of the fish that pass through the locks on their way to spawn, and Chinook are a threatened species.
The locks will be closed for 12 hours, starting at 7 a.m.
Can pedestrians still go, or is it closed to both foot and boat traffic?
Just boats.
Colour me ignorant, but people actually commute via boat that comes up through the locks? Can you tell me roughly from where to where? I never knew this!