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take the investigation. The Engineering Board was comprised of two members from each country with authority to make use of the services of technical staffs of established Government agencies. (During the Columbia River Treaty negotiations, the...
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its ratification by President Kennedy in March 1961. Canada, however, delayed Parliamentary approval because of a difference between the Canadian National Government and the Province of British Columbia over disposition of Canada's share of the...
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potential on the tributaries to the Columbia River and the Snake River and its tributaries was unlikely to be realized. In place of the high Hells Canyon Dam, which would have provided a great deal of storage, small dams were built with a minimum...
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Interstate Bridge between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. If a flood of this size had recurred, storage built in the United States before the Treaty dams would have held the level of the river to 31.7 feet—only 3.8 feet less. But...
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utilities in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Its purpose is to assure that all major hydroelectric projects in the region, including Canadian storage, operate at maximum efficiency.
For more than 20 years the parties to the Coordination Agreement,...
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high-voltage cables were installed from the unit transformers to the switchyard. Rated at 525,000 volts, when installed, these were the only known cables carrying this voltage in oil-filled pipes anywhere in the world.
The total cost of the...
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Congressional authorization or financing by a non-Federal entity."
Hanford was the site of the nation's first plutonium production reactors—the earliest dating back to 1945. These were single-purpose reactors which produced only weapons-grade...
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subsequent lease of the reactor to WPPSS to produce steam for power whenever it is not being used for the production of plutonium.
On September 26, 1963, one year to the day after he signed the authorizing legislation, President John F. Kennedy...
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7 Pacific Intertie BPA turns South
The Pacific Northwest-Pacific
Southwest Intertie became a
reality in the 1960's through a culmination of three crucial forces—technological, political, and economic. Its history—from conception to...
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marily because of the diversities of loads and resources of the two regions. Southwest loads peak in the summer due to irrigation and air-conditioning. The Northwest has winter peaks due to electric heating. In terms of resources, most major...
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lines; to plan for further national cooperative pooling of electric power, both public and private; and to enlarge such pooling as now exists."
On March 10, 1961, Secretary Udall appointed a special task force headed by Bonneville Power...
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value nearly twice the size of the corresponding deficit. In other words, we have been forced to waste some $30 million worth of water per year over our spillways—water that could have turned generators, produced kilowatt hours and revenues, and...
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Day Dam to Malin, Oregon, on the Oregon California border. Energization of one a-c line was completed to the Vincent Substation near Los Angeles by January 1968. Both lines to the Lugo Substation were energized in January 1969.
Just as the...
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network, since all 345-kilovolt facilities in the planning stage were changed to 500-kilovolt lines and substations. The era which encompassed the construction of the Intertie was also a period of major expansion for the BPA grid which totaled...
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8 Hydro•Thermal Power Program
For 30 years the Pacific Northwest had enjoyed the economic advantage of the lowest
cost electricity in the nation due to the
hydro power generated at the great Federal
dams throughout the Columbia Basin. By...
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announced the formation of a special BPA task force to work closely with utilities in making an evaluation of all aspects of thermal generation in the region. Following an initial planning phase, the Bonneville Power Administration joined with 108...
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required at all times, and thus any hydro energy previously classed as secondary or surplus will be usable for replacement of higher cost thermal generation."
As foreseen in these earlier recommendations, the Joint Power Planning Council—after...
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tended in the 1971 Public Works Appropriations Act to BPA's participation on the first 10-year program, which includes seven thermal plants.
The first plant completed under the program was the coal-fired facility near Centralia, Washington,...
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generator installation schedules at such crucial Federal hydro projects as The Dalles Dam and Grand Coulee's third powerplant. The BPA Administrator, Henry R. Richmond, as Chairman of the Joint Power Planning Council, was particularly sensitive to...
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December 1973, an agreement on concepts was announced. From it evolved a general blueprint for projecting the program beyond 1981. The projection became known as Phase 2 of the Hydro-Thermal Power Program. The Phase 2 planning as of early 1975...
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berger in the 1950's would have permitted BPA to sell revenue bonds to finance Federal generating units (to be built, as now, by the Army Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation), both thermal and hydro, as well as the transmission system. The...
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