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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Bacon Siphon and Bacon Tunnel. Looking into the downstream end of the Bacon Siphon from the point where it joins the Bacon Tunnel. The structure here has an inside diameter of 23-feet, 3-inches and when...
1950-04-27
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Urbanization has not progressed as far in this subdivision as in some other parts of the Columbia River Basin. A significant proportion of the total population in 1940, however, was classed as urban (36 percent). Boise, the capital of Idaho and...
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3D3 [3B4] Comment: This statement is only partly true. Ground water beneath the project has risen as a result of irrigation. In the northern part much of the water is tributary to Potholes Reservoir where it is collected and reused. Where ground...
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1 map ; negative, 21 x 32 cm.
This was a preliminary map showing one particular plan for the irrigation of the Columbia Basin. As noted in the title, this map represented the pumping plan, whereby a dam would be constructed at Grand Coulee...
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A branch of the Union Pacific Railroad into Spokane provides connections with the main line of that railroad to the Midwest and to Portland, Oreg. The Spokane, Portland & Seattle Ry. supplies an alternate route to Portland via the lower Columbia...
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place. There I was introduced to the owner, Mr. R. Randolph Bruce, a wealthy mining man and a retired civil engineer, who showed me his fine collection of Navajo rugs, and beautiful flower garden. Miss E. N. Kettle was also introduced who served...
2004-07-06
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1 map ; negative : 32 x 27 cm. This was a preliminary map showing one particular plan for the irrigation of the Columbia Basin. As noted in the title, this map represented the pumping plan, whereby a dam would be constructed at Grand Coulee and...
2024-11-22
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cation of those investigations to provide the greater detail essential for planning and scheduling the contemplated full use of resources. The continuing studies needed will be conducted by numerous agencies, and the results of the studies will be...
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1 map : 26 x 43 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 400 ft. Inset: Section thru dam
This is a very preliminary design map showing how a dam could be placed at Grand Coulee. Initial excavation for a dam there didn't begin until 1933, by which point...
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Information on fall, channel and the best means of running them I would have to pick up as I went along.
I shoved off from Pasco Ferry at nine o'clock in the morning of Sunday, November fourteenth. With Roos and his blanket-roll, camera and...
2004-08-23
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Logistic regression was used to relate anthropogenic and natural factors to the occurrence of elevated nitrate concentrations in the Columbia Basin GWMA and develop models that predict the probability that nitrate concentrations in ground water...
2024-11-22
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Speech given to the 7th Congress of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage regarding drainage planning studies, designs and construction on the Columbia Basin Project.
1969-04-15
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Legislative Digest
OFFICE OF SECRETARY-MANAGER 897 NATIONAL PRESS BLDG. WASHINGTON 4. D. C.
June 21, 1963
VOL. XIV-No. 17
CHARLES KAUPKE DIES
Charles L. Kaupke, Life Member of the National Reclamation Association, and former member of the...
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TABLE 1.—Annual costs and benefits (1946 prices)
Annual costs
Operation, maintenance and replacements:
Irrigation (including domestic water systems)
Navigation Flood control Allowance for amortization of all construction costs in...
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Document: Statement of Stewart Udall before the subcommittee on Irrigation & Reclamation, March 14, 1967, page 14
1967-03-14
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IV. COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN BENEFITS
The main obstacle, which heretofore has prevented the implementation of several proposed irrigation projects1 in the vicinity of Twin Falls, Idaho, has been the cost of pumping water from the Snake River....
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ulated no local enterprises of great importance for the distribution of these goods.
Development in 1940.—By 1940 this picture had changed completely. The scattered islands of land irrigated in 1900 for the most part had been made parts of a...
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WaterWatch withdrew its objections to some out-of-district irrigation water rights. The Oregon Water Resources Department crafted water permits to implement the settlement.18
Not all of the water issues are resolved in the Umatilla, obviously....
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2. The Wallowa County-Nez Perce Initiative
Watershed efforts first took shape in Wallowa County, the ancestral home of the Wallowa band of Nez Perce Indians (also known as the -Joseph band). Headwaters begin in the steep canyons in the...
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The Wesley A. D'Ewart Collection contains campaign materials,
speeches and writings, correspondence, and research materials accumulated by Mr. D'Ewart.
Subjects include campaign materials and election returns pertaining to the...
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