The Okanogan Irrigation District used this funding to undertake agricultural water conservation throughout the district to save 600 acre feet of water annually and dedicate it to instream flows for endangered steelhead and Chinook. The district achieved an 86 % efficiency rate. Improved district-wide conservation measures were achieved by 1) installing flow meters and flow measurement devices, 2) installing software for water budgeting, accounting, and tracking conserved water, 3) making improvements to booster stations and variable speed drives, and 4) installing an automated system for water delivery. Inadequate instream flows had obstructed access to 12 miles of high quality spawning and rearing habitat above the district’s diversion dam. A limiting factors analysis in the lower 4.3 miles of Salmon Creek indicated that passage flows of 15-20 cfs were required below the diversion dam. A study undertaken by the district and the Colville Tribes identified alternatives to provide these flows. Conservation and six other alternatives were implemented together to provide year-round flows to support the life cycles of steelhead and Chinook. Salmon Creek was identified in three independent studies as having the greatest potential for supporting anadromous fish populations in the Okanogan Basin.