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Abstract of proposals for the removal of rock from the channels of the Upper Columbia and
Snake Rivers, opened by Maj. G. L. Gillespie, Corps of Engineers, September 23, 1879.
Number.
1,000 cubic yards of rock, more or less (per cubic...
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7,365, or 26 percent of the total service group, ranked first. Wholesale trade employed only 1,566 persons, or 5 percent. Transportation was of average significance; 2,822 persons, or 10 percent, were so engaged. A greater than average proportion...
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Deschutes River Basin
Present Development
Irrigation along the Deschutes River and its tributaries is highly developed. Power production is relatively insignificant ; the total installed capacity of five small private plants is little more...
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Chapter III. PLANS, COSTS, AND BENEFITS 73
Potential Developments and Construction
Costs 74
Storage 74
Irrigation 74
Power 74
Flood Control 76
Navigation 76
Other Developments 76
Benefits 76
Irrigation Benefits...
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ABSTRACT The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Okanogan County, investigated the hydrogeology of the unconsolidated sedimentary deposits in the Methow River Basin, the quality of surface and ground waters, and the exchanges between...
2024-05-02
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of transporting ore from mines near its head to the town of Chelan at the outlet.
Lake Chelan is the outstanding feature of the Chelan River watershed. It is fed by streams rising high in the Cascade Mountains. Glaciers, in part, supply the...
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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... |
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of the river, a distance of 84 miles, was made September-October, 1878, under the direction of Maj. J. M. Wilson, Corps of Engineers.
The improvement of the river above the north fork was found impracticable, but Major Wilson states in his...
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Consideration of alternative methods for reducing flood damages showed that. the cost of storage solely for flood-control purposes would be excessive. Storage for flood control in reservoirs constructed primarily for power development, however,...
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Only portions of issues of The Water Report are available in the Klamath Waters Digital Library. See the full report at http://www.thewaterreport.com/.
2004-03-15
2008-07-18 2006-06-13 |
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Pacific Coast on the project for a canal around the Cascades of the Columbia River, Oregon, for which an appropriation of $90,000 was made by the river and harbor act of August 14, 1876, appear to be judicious and are concurred in by me. I have,...
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9E Sandy Basin
47 LATOURELL PRAIRIE 1000 3060 219 14.8 220 **** RA 5300 47 N45 33.0 W122 0.5 EXIST CCLUMBIA RIVER 35 1 22200 4500
6000 156 10.5 620 **** 31700 125 1 26200
50 MCCORD CREEK 1000 3040 2C4 13.8 140 **** RA 5400 50 N45 35.0 W121...
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Rivers would be required for a substantial part of the water supply. Investigations of the project have not yet been undertaken.
Power.—About 5,500 kilowatts of firm power could be developed on the Little White Salmon River by constructing a...
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the water. The current would catch the rope, drag it down stream, then release it, and it would fly back upstream to repeat the process. It was the flip-flop, flip-flop of this rope that I had heard and thought was someone chopping. The rope was...
2004-07-07
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Colorado River Association Newsletter, February 1967, page 2
1967-02-01
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relative elevations of consecutive dams. The profile sheet of water surfaces plainly shows this condition of river regimen. For the same locality changes of slopes at different stages are due to engorgements of the river, or, in other words,...
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among scientists and managers than ever before. By 1995, all of the basin's recovery plans, Return to the River, and the National Research Council's Upstream report urged an adaptive approach.21
Other essential pieces of an adaptive management...
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The slight precipitation received on the plateaus, the great depth to ground water, and the fact that streams with continuous flow throughout the summer lie in deep canyons have made the provision of adequate water supplies a major problem over...
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The changes suggested in the recommendations of this study would push traditional political boundaries incrementally toward the National Research Council model: toward more coincidence between governmental and ecological systems, more effective...
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to the vast areas of mountain wilderness and sagebrush desert which are virtually uninhabited. Much the greater part of the basin has a sparse population; concentrations are limited to scattered areas. The average population density of 10 persons...
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nigger boy, for a modern pop safety valve has done away with him. The engine is very much up-to-date; the only suggestion of its forefather is found in the wire spark catcher on the smokestack-a sort of tribute to bygone days. Otherwise the boat...
2004-03-02
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variably three. Many of the spurs of the hills reach the River in a succession of narrow, rocky points, necessitating short tunnels' on the railways paralleling the stream. At one place on the North Bank Road I counted five tunnels in a half mile....
2004-07-22
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Benson immediately below the upper falls and over the chasm cut by the rushing waters. Near here the tracks of the O. W. R. & N. Co. occupied all the available space between the river and the mountain side. The danger of slides precluded any...
2004-06-16
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Willamette-Cowlitz lowland as well as a tidewater channel from the sea to the lowland.
LOWER COLUMBIA
EMPLOYED WORKERS IN RELATION TO
NATURAL RESOURCES
1940
* Employment in Service and in Manufacturing activities other .than production...
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It is practicable to make a training wall for the ebb waters by substituting for the stone dike a double or triple row of piles, and filling the spaces with fascines and stone. Such a temporary and experimental dike is, however, not recommended....
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