The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife used this funding to upgrade a fish screen facility on the Fulton Canal, located on the lower Chewuch River. near Winthrop WA. The previous facility was a single 3.5-ft diameter by 12-ft long electric-driven drum that screened up to 22 cfs, which resulted in an average approach velocity of 0.7 fps and measured (hot) spot velocities exceeding 1.2 fps. That screen had maximum capacity of only 12.7-cfs at 85% submergence before exceeding the 0.4-fps velocity criteria established by WDFW and NMFS and it was oriented 90 degrees to the canal flow, which inhibited fish from rapidly accessing the bypass system to return to the river. In addition, the woven wire mesh screen cloth was too large to prevent emergent steelhead, bull trout, and small Chinook salmon fry from entrainment. The worst feature was the bypass system that returns fish back to the river-the entrance was undersized and the return to the river ran the fish over a bedrock ledge at high velocity. WDFW’s Yakima Screen Shop replaced this facility based on authority RCW 75.20.061 prior to the start of the 2000 irrigation season.