Clarence "Clancy" C. Gordon served as a
professor of Botany and Environmental Studies at the University of
Montana-Missoula from 1960 until his death in 1981. This collection contains
materials related to Gordon’s prolific...
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Run-off data for major streams—Upper Snake
Approximate location
Records available 1
Drainage area
(square miles)
Average annual
run-off 1931-40
(acre-feet)
Stream
Snake River Heise, Idaho 1910—42 5,740 4,091,000
1902...
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Irrigation.—Plans for irrigation in the Weiser River Basin involve provision of supplemental water to the 14,830 acres now inadequately supplied and a full supply to 24,760 acres of new land. The potential new-land developments are associated...
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Summary of potential developments
IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE (ACRES)
Project or unit
Total area benefited
Project or unit
New land
Gravity Pumping Total
area
benefited
Supplemental water
Supplemental water
New land
Gravity...
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made. Flood-protection measures are largely unnecessary.
Irrigation.—Development of irrigation in the John Day Basin was started near Prairie City about 1860. Existing projects were reported to be capable of serving 47,814 acres in 1940, of...
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Power.—Commercial power is developed on White Salmon River at the Northwestern Electric Co.'s Conduit plant, which consists of a concrete dam diverting water into pen stocks leading to a powerhouse a short distance downstream. Constructed in...
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Draft transcript of the First Annual Meeting of the Colorado River Water Forecast Committee in Los Angeles, California, April 16, 1945, and the Transcript of Meeting, Columbia River Basin Interstate Water Forecast Committee, held at Portland,...
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Illustration of the manner in which the discharge of a stream may vary from day to day, season to season, and year to year was presented in chapter II.
Stream flow records are published annually in water-supply papers and in several compilation...
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1 map: col., 18 x 21 cm.
Before the arrival to Washington State of the first irrigation projects handled by the U.S. Reclamation Service,
the Northern Pacific Railroad and other railway companies funded...
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than any other river in the United States except the Mississippi.
24. The Snake River has its source at an elevation of nearly 10,000 feet in western Wyoming. It crosses southern Idaho from east to west and then turns northward cutting through...
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dale, Oreg., about 15 miles east of the Willamette. The greater part of its 520 square miles of drainage area is mountainous and heavily timbered, and only limited areas in the steeply rolling hill country along the lower reaches of the river have...
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commercial value is attributable to the Columbia. Preliminary estimates by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries indicate gross sales by fishermen in 1964 at about $6,000,000.
In 1964, 689 gill net licenses were issued to Columbia River fishermen...
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miles wide, with a drop of over 400 feet. By way of comparison, Niagara Falls, one mile wide and with a drop of only 165 feet, would have been dwarfed by Dry Falls. The power at this point of the Ice Age diverted Columbia River was at least that...
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Proposed resource management plan/final environmental impact statement for the Klamath Falls Resource Area
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and Weiser Rivers to the edge of the mountains. Lesser acreages are found along the streams of the other agricultural valleys of the area. These soils are brown to dark-brown in color, with lighter-colored subsoils. Although in most cases the...
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tate the development of irrigated areas and power production.
lrrigation.-The total area of new lands in prospect for irrigation in the Yakima Valley is about 131,000 acres. Its addition to the present irrigated area would bring the total land...
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of the lack of irrigation water during exceptionally dry years. This condition can be remedied in part by constructing a 12,000-acre-foot reservoir on the main stream. This reservoir would be in a position to deliver stored water to 12,000 acres...
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CHAPTER V
Central Snake GENERAL DESCRIPTION The central Snake Basin includes the drainage area tributary to the Snake River along somewhat more than 400 miles of its course below the upper Snake Basin. Unlike the latter, the central Basin... |
divisions, all that is planned is extension of the lateral system and its improvement to eliminate excessive seepage losses.
The present irrigable areas, potential extensions, and ultimate irrigable areas of the three divisions of the Flathead...
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Society in the Pacific Northwest." Indeed, some of Return to the River's recommendations closely resemble not just those of the National Research Council study, but also the National Marine Fisheries Service's proposed recovery plan; the treaty...
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Announcement and draft transcript of the First Annual Meeting of the Colorado River Water Forecast Committee, Los Angeles, California, April 16, 1945, as well as associated documents and correspondence. Main correspondents are Ralph Parshall, F....
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Draft transcript of the Third Annual Meeting of the Colorado River Water Forecast Committee in Los Angeles, California, April 16, 1947, as well as associated programs, committee correspondence, and documents. Also included are the following...
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Section 5C (3) [5D3]
"The impact of water diversion for thermal plant cooling, whether for evaporation towers or for irrigation, should be checked."
The location of thermal plants within the State of Washington is subject to the Washington...
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958 congressional record -— senate 5463 merely wish to enunciate one particular faqpt for the Record at this point. I as-re the Senator and his colleagues that : h|ave no intention of trying to strike ; item from the bill. Lowever, on March 26 I...
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Colorado River Association Newsletter, September, 1966, page 4
1966-09-01
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