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and finally, but by no means least of them, the Columbia River in the Northwest . . . And from there, my friends, in each of the four quarters of the United States, there will exist forever a National yardstick to prevent extortion against the...
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Ocean to its native river to spawn. If the salmon do not get up this river the species is doomed. Obviously, the construction of huge concrete barriers at two sites on the Columbia could prevent the fish from returning. The Federal Government...
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the Washington side. By passing up these ladders, the fish are able to get to the 70-foot high pool behind the dam, and to the spawning grounds beyond. Returning baby salmon, known as fingerlings, are helped downstream by means of five bypass...
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Image heading: Building the Dams
Image details: PLATE I COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN Accompanying Part One of Report on Columbia River prepared pursuant to House Document 308, 69th Congress, lst Session. Dated at Office of the Division... |
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Image captions: Wooden, concrete moldings at Bonneville Dam.
Bonneville Dam
Photo Credit, U.S. Corps of Engineers
Spillway construction at Bonneville Dam.
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Image captions: Fish ladders at Bonneville Dam.
Building Bonneville Dam.
Construction of the Bonneville powerhouse, 1937.
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Image captions: Grand Coulee Dam
Photo Credit, Bureau of Reclamation
Foundation for the powerhouses (top and bottom) and the spillways (middle) takes shape, 1938.
Removing fractured rock for the foundation of Grand Coulee, 1936.
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Image captions: Working around-the-clock at Grand Coulee, 1938
Lowering the rotor for the generator, Grand Coulee Dam, 1948.
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Image captions: Working on the penstock tubes that lead to the turbines, Grand Coulee Dam, 1938.
Partially completed spillways and energy dissipation bucket at Grand Coulee, 1937.
Image caption [for page 25]: Pouring concrete at Grand Coulee... |
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Image captions: Construction of Grand Coulee Dam, 1940.
Joe Hodgen of Adrian, Washington, leads his flock across Grand Coulee Dam on the way to summer pastures, 1948.
Image caption [for page 27]:Engineer inspects a turbine shaft at Grand... |
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3 Bonneville Project Act. A Provisional Bureau is Born
Not all of the opposition to the
Columbia River projects ceased
after construction started.
There still remained critics who called the giant
dams "white elephants in the...
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use of Columbia hydropower, introduced the first bill in Congress which proposed procedures for marketing Bonneville electricity. His legislation would have created a Columbia Valley Authority, patterned after the Tennessee Valley Authority. This...
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region and for the recommendations which led to creation of the Bonneville Power Administration. Under the direction of Roy Bessey, the staff identified most of the policies which became part of the Bonneville Project Act of 1937. A map of the...
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Recommendations of the Pacific Northwest Regional Planning Commission were adopted by the Special Committee with two significant changes. First they dropped the proposal for an independent corporation in favor of .establishing a bureau in the...
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serving under Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. They became close friends and Ross was an influential advisor to the President on power matters.
When he assumed the duties of Administrator, the tasks before Ross included recruiting and organizing...
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Many years later, a Bonneville Power Administration substation was named in Guthrie's honor, and Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall said in tribute: "The greatness of this land is that people such as you, with creative talent, worked on it...
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the President in his 1932 Portland speech.
Ross believed that the public should have an opportunity to express its sentiments on rates. He stated: "Bonneville Dam belongs to the whole Northwest. It is the property of all the people, and I am...
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Commission, established the rate per kilowatt year at $14.50 at the dam (busbar) and $17.50 for primary power elsewhere on the transmission system. This original rate of $17.50 continued for 28 years—until 1965.
Bonneville Dam's first...
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from the sea, after passing through the Coast Range and the Cascade Range. Since opening of the sealocks and drowning of Cascade rapids by Bonneville pool, a steadily increasing barge and riverboat traffic has been built up between Portland and...
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tricts in the respective states. By the winter of
1938, 25 Washington public utility districts,
the Seattle and Tacoma municipal systems,
and a number of smaller municipalities were
eligible to receive Bonneville power under the...
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Under Paul Raver's leadership, BPA's permanent structure was beginning to take shape. The agency's organizational functions were arranged into two divisions, one for engineering and operations and the other for power management. The first of the...
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the Columbia Gorge.
The conservation clause, which all BPA contracts since 1939 have contained, stipulates that:
"Power generated at the Bonneville Project Power Plant shall not be available to purchasers whose plants or operations, in the...
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