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GOJ	Juvenile Fish Facility, USACE Little Goose Lock and Dam, located on the Snake river approximately six miles northwest of Starbuck, WA.
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Driving Directions

From Tri-Cities
- Go north on US-395
- Continue on US-12, turn left onto WA-124 - go 27 miles
- Bear right onto the Lyons Ferry ramp - go 0.1 miles
- Turn left onto Harvey Shaw Rd/Lyons Ferry Rd - go 26 miles
- Turn right onto WA-261 - go 5.5 miles
- Turn left onto Little Goose Dam Rd - go 8.25 miles
- Turn left onto access road - go 0.5 miles
- Arrive at Little Goose Lock and Dam

Site Configuration

GOJ Site Configuration - click to enlarge

Site History

PTAGIS has maintained the PIT tag detection system at the Little Goose Dam Juvenile Fish Facility (JFF) since 1986, the Separation-by-Tag system during its existence from 1993 to 1996 and the Separation-by-Code system since 1996.

In January of 1986, the site consisted of five 400khz monitors: A-main, B-main, Sample Room, Unknown Group 1 and Unknown Group 2.

In April of 1990, the site grew with the addition and renaming of monitors: A-Separator Gate, A-Raceway/Exit, A-Diversion, B-Separator Gate, B-Raceway/Exit, B-Diversion, Sample Room And Diversion Exit.

In 1993, separation by tag was introduced. In 1996, with the arrival of Multimon interrogation software, came separation by code (SbyC).

The site was converted to use ISO 134.2KHz transceivers in January of 2000. The monitors at this point consisted of A-Separator Gate, A-Raceway/River Exit, A-Diversion/SbyC Gate, B-Separator Gate, B-Raceway/River Exit, B-Diversion/SbyC Gate, Sample Room And Diversion River Exit.

Another change was made in March 2002: A-Separator Gate, B-Separator Gate, Diversion SbyC Gate, Diversion River Exit, SbyC River Exit, A-Raceway/River Exit, B-Raceway/River Exit, Sample Room

In 2006 the Adult Fish Return monitor was added. The Full Flow Bypass monitor came online in 2009. In 2010, a DSL connection was made for communications.