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substations, erection of 8,500 wood poles, placing of 10 million pounds of conductors or 640 miles of transmission lines as well as a great deal of other work. The giant transmission project will provide 1 million man-days of work for those who...
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Image details: FEDERAL HOUSING
UTILITIES - MUNICIPAL
MILITARY TRAINING CAMP & OTHER MILITARY LOADS
COMMUNITIES-P.U. D
SHIPBUILDING
METALLURGY-
NON FERROUS
METALLURGY-FERROUS
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125.721.500 KWH OF ELECTRIC ENERGY...
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4 The Forties Years of Expansion
With the 1940's came war and a
new urgency to expand the
energy resources of the country. And while this chapter will speak specifically of the vital contribution made by the Bonneville Power Administration...
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Northwest might be called upon for a supreme effort because of unsettled conditions throughout the world.
In his first annual report to Congress, Administrator Ross clearly expressed this feeling:
"Modern warfare is fought in the factory as...
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Administration suggested the accelerated completion of the powerplant at Bonneville Dam. As a result of a formal request by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of War, the matter was submitted to Congress early in 1939. Congress then...
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BPA's high-voltage, high-capacity transmission system grew from 37.4 miles of lines in 1939 to a total of 2,720 miles in 1945 with an investment of about $75 million—to become the second largest power system in the nation. In 1939, the BPA grid...
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selecting additional aluminum production sites, two at Spokane, one each at Longview and Tacoma, Washington, and one at Troutdale, Oregon. At the peak of their operation, six plants consumed nearly 500,000 average kilowatts. In 1944, they produced...
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From a small community on a bend of the river with about 200 persons, Hanford expanded to house a wartime construction force of 45,000. Today, the Tri-City area (Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick) continues in its role as a major nuclear research...
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5 The Fifties •Years of Consolidation
Cessation of hostilities in August 1945 brought large cutbacks in the use of electric
power as the wartime industrial machine was
slowed. Production of aluminum had already
been sharply curtailed in...
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by making defense plants available to them at greatly reduced prices, but also by providing them with the low-cost energy needed for aluminum production.
Harold Stein, in his book, Public Administration and Policy Development, describes the...
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flow for greater power output.
Roy Bessey, in Pacific Northwest Regional Planning, called the project one of "special significance in pioneering headwater storage and extensive hydraulic and electrical integration in the system," and said "Both...
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hydroelectric power.
It was recognized that integration of the new projects and their transmission facilities with the existing system would be a matter of long-range planning requiring coordination and management in order to achieve maximum...
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Images caption: Disastrous 1948 floods devastated communities like Vanport, Oregon, and accelerated the demand for multi-purpose dams in the Columbia Basin.
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The 1950 legislation also authorized two additional flood control dams on the Willamette River and its tributaries. Devastating floods had periodically occurred on this branch of the Columbia, which drains the fertile Willamette Valley in western...
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Northwest power needs during a period of 8 years. More than 22 billion kilowatt-hours were consumed in 1948, compared to less than 7 billion kilowatt-hours in 1940. The phenomenal increase in power requirements was the result of population growth...
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to Federal agency budgets. BPA along with the other bureaus experienced sizable budget reductions. But, fortunately, Congressional response to the 1948 flood and to the 1948-49 winter peaking power shortage resulted in increased funding for...
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timber-agricultural economy with industrial payroll development . . . this objective can best be achieved by keeping the wholesale rate for power at a sufficiently low level to offset the disadvantages of high regional freight rates and the...
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proposed high dam in the Hells Canyon stretch of the Snake River, between Idaho and Oregon. The Idaho Power Company in 1949 had applied to the Federal Power Commission (FPC) for a preliminary permit to build a small hydropower facility 40 miles...
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Clearwater Rivers (two major salmon spawning streams). That is a predominant reason why Senator Wayne Morse and I are sponsoring S. 1333 for Hells Canyon."
The Idaho Power Company argued its case on the basis of an earlier decision by the United...
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cost of supplies and services by 1957. During this period BPA had sold 247 billion kWh of electric energy at an average rate of 2.36 mills per kWh. Sales to publicly owned utilities accounted for 58.8 billion kWh; privately-owned utilities...
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Doris Rae Keeler, Assistant General Counsel of BPA, was Acting Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration on March 29-30, 1950.
Virginia Storms, Confidential Assistant to the BPA Administrator and the second woman to head the...
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6 Columbia River Treaty with Canada-
BPA Turns North
Across the 49th Parallel, the
boundary between the United
States and Canada, flows the
Columbia River—the largest single source of
hydroelectric power on the North American...
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