BONNEVILLE DAM, Ore. — The snowpack along the Columbia River Basin isn’t what it used to be, and that’s creating problems for the Bonneville Power Administration.

“Average hasn’t really been average,” Michael Hansen, a Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) spokesman, said of the federal utility’s water levels during an interview at the administration’s Portland office.

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