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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jeff McMurray

Federal grants will replace tunnels beneath roads that let water pass but not fish

Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

The Biden administration on Wednesday announced nearly $200 million in federal infrastructure grants to upgrade tunnels that carry streams beneath roads but can be deadly to fish that get stuck trying to pass through.

Many of these narrow passages known as culverts, often made from metal or concrete, were built in the 1950s and are blamed in part for declining populations of salmon and other fish that live in the ocean but return to freshwater streams to spawn.

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