Minnows Using Fish Channel A channel built to help fish find their way around the Albuquerque metro area's new water supply dam appears to be working, officials said during a tour of the site Monday. The dam, on the Rio Grande near Albuquerque's northern border, is one piece of a $385 million water system scheduled to be turned on in December to provide a new source of drinking water for the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County metro area. Officials from the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service toured the dam Monday to look at the fish structure and discuss its operation. The dam has been in place and tested for two years, and fish surveys have shown that the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow is using the dam's fish channel, according to John Stomp, the water utility's project manager....