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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 9 Mr. NEUBERGER. . T h e Senator is t oo generous in his description of the Secretary's action. Not only did the Secretary of the Interior intervene in the Hells Canyon fight, taut he actually intervened on the...
2008-11-01
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Aerial view looking into the upper end of the 12 pumping plant discharge pipe tunnels. Just beyond the tunnel mouths is the pumping plant. The upper combined bends for discharge pipes Nos. 1 and 2 are in position at the bottom of the picture.
1949-06-15
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View showing west crane recess
1940-04-10
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Specifications 2329, Morrison-Knudsen So., Inc. and Peter Kiewit Sons' Company. Progress view showing initial construction on the pump discharge outlet structure. On the right can be seen the completed invert of P-1 and P-2 conduits with the...
1949-06-28
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Specs # 2329, Contract I2r 18156, Contractor, Morrison-Knudsen Company Inc. and Peter Kiewit Son's Co. View looking north showing progress made on pumping plant including office wing, parking area, gantry crane, and storage building P-9 through...
1950-09-25
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Specifications 2329. Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc., and Peter Kiewit Sons' Company. Progress view of the pump-discharge outlet structure showing the status of construction of the crest bends of P-1 to P-4 discharge pipes. Pipes P-1 and P-2 have...
1949-09-08
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Specifications 2329. Contractor: Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc. and Peter Kiewit Sons' Company. Subcontractor: Consolidated Western Steel Corporation. Progress view of 12-foot diameter pump-discharge pipe emerging from P-4 tunnel. The two top...
1949-10-06
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Looking north over pump plant construction
1940-06-21
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General view of the spillway section of Grand Coulee Dam, taken from the west bank for the Columbia River. On this date, approximately 80,000 cubic feet of water per second was plunged nearly 350 feet vertically down the face of the dam, creating...
1944-08-16
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Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Dam. Bedrock in the old river channel, showing the natural water-worn rock surface as it is found under a bed of clay and boulders left in the canyon during the last ice age, and the operation of removing...
1937-04-01
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Grand Coulee Dam Seismograph Station, showing seismograph equipment before installation, arranged only for photographic purposes. Dr. Dead S. Carder of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey is simulating the adjustment of position of galvanometers on...
1942-09-16
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DISTORTION Opponents misinform the people when they say only one area would benefit. THE WEST AND THE NATION WILL BENEFIT Every state in the nation benefits from projects such as the Colorado River Storage Project. Much needed water is the...
2008-12-01
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Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Dam. Removing weathered and unsound surface rock in the bottom of the Columbia River Channel to provide for a water tight union of granite bedrock and the dam.
1937-04-01
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An aerial view looking northeast. A general view showing feeder canal, area above feeder canal, and part of town of Grand Coulee. Highest crack in slide area is visible. Feeder canal outline can be seen back to headworks. A view of the area above...
1947-10-21
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A tight fit. The clearance between the huge 25-foot rotors and the stators of the two 75,000 kilowatt Shasta Dam generators, being installed at Grand Coulee Dam to make additional power available for war industries, is only 5/8 inch. Lowering this...
1942-11-28
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An aerial view looking east. A general view showing feeder canal, area immediately above slide area of canal, and part of town of Grand Coulee. Feeder canal shown back to headworks
1947-10-21
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An 84-inch needle valve being placed on erection base in bay R-5 of the right powerhouse at Grand Coulee Dam. Eight of these needle valves, transferred from Boulder Dam, are being temporarily installed in the turbine pits by use of steel reducers...
1944-11-24
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41 degree, cast steel elbow, installed between penstock reducer section and needle valve in bay R-9 of the right powerhouse at Grand Coulee Dam. Eight needle valves, each having an 84-inch discharge, are being installed in the right powerhouse....
1945-01-02
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Panoramic view of the Grand Coulee site. Both banks are visible, as are excavation operations and employee housing.
1935-08-02
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A distant view of Grand Coulee Dam showing the employee housing along the Columbia River, in Grand Coulee, Washington April 21, 1940.
1940-04-21
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Panoramic view of the Grand Coulee site. Both banks are visible, as are excavation operations and employee housing.
1935-08-02
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Although this truck alone weighs almost 60,000 pounds, it's not uncommon for one or two huge granite armor rocks to lift the front wheels clear of the ground. A dozer, blade visible at left, solved the truck drivers dilemma in this problem. The...
1950-07-11
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Specifications 2329. Contractor: Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc., and Peter Kiewit Sons' Co. View of the 12-foot diameter pump-discharge pipes P-1 to P-6 showing their entrance into the outlet structure.
1949-10-11
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View over looking Coulee Dam--a new transmission tower rises.
1941-08-20
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, West Canal, Specifications No. 1286--Utah Construction Co. and Winston Bros. Co., Contractor. Looking west into open outlet transition of Dry Coulee Siphon No. 2. The forms are warped from vertical to...
1948-09-28
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