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The occurrence, distribution, and transport of dissolved (filtered-water) trace elements in the surface waters of the Yakima River Basin were assessed using data collected between 1999 and 2000 as part of the U.S.G.S.'s National Water-Quality...
2024-05-16
and well above, small, entrenched tributaries. Farther west, toward the Snake River, rolling lands and flats drop down to an elevation of 750 feet at Lewiston, at the junction of the Snake and Clearwater Rivers. North of the abrupt, northern...

choice, Return to the River maintains, is between a more complex working river with healthy salmon populations and a simpler river without them. Return to the River urges that salmon recovery be premised on the restoration of a working...

Numerous environmental studies have been conducted in the Spokane River Basin over the past several decades by government agencies, academic institutions, and environmental engineering firms. Most of these efforts have focused on the environmental...
1998-05-16
of the cultivated lands there is subirrigated by raising ground water to the plant roots. As a result, water tables on both sides of Henrys Fork River are brought to within 1 to 3 feet of the surface during the growing season, and remain higher...

In July and August of 1994, the U.S.G.S. in cooperation with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ) collected data to document the spatial extent and diel variability of dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations and pH levels in selected...
1995-05-16
Newsletter from Dr. Ben Yellen, "The Truth About Grand Canyon Dams," August 12, 1966, page 1
1966-08-12

"synchronous" and widespread in the late 1960s.44 From historic peaks ranging from ten to sixteen million adult fish, the Columbia runs declined to something like a million (see Figure 5). As bleak as this number is, it understates the decline of...

as will enable me to deduce plans of improvement from a general study of the whole situation. I estimate that such a survey as far up as, and including the Priest Rapids obstruction, will cost $12,500. Very respectfully, your obedient servant,...

The same groups worry that new storage would come to be seen as a panacea that would supplant conservation and other nonstructural measures.' While these concerns need to be addressed, the Yakima remains one of the basins in which forward momentum...

The fall in the Willamette River during low-water is as follows: Calling the zero of the gauge at the foot of Yamhill street, Portland, 100,000 during low-water, the gauge at Portland reading 3 feet, the elevations at different points are as...

Q Q 3 IMPROVEMENT OF COLUMBIA RIVER AT CASCADES, OREGON. This work is at the Cascades of the Columbia, in the heart of the Cascade Mountains, where navigation is completely obstructed. The project is to build a canal 3,000 feet long, with...

report, the following estimate was made: A graph was constructed of time of passage versus river mileage from Lady Island outfall for various river discharges, using the flow equation Q = VA; where Q = discharge, V = average river velocity, and A...

forth, would be likely over the long term to allow the population to survive.'" After evaluating the proposed operations and specifying a variety of mitigation measures, the agency again concluded that the proposed power system operations would...

The average annual precipitation in the vicinity of the upper Columbian lakes is 13 inches. This increases as the River is followed, and at Surprise Rapids, where a rain gauge is kept, it is 30 inches. No record was obtainable at the Ferry but the...
2004-07-12
53 p. Includes sections of Appendix QQ: 1884 annual report of Capt. Charles F. Powell, Corps of Engineers, detailing construction, surveys and other works of river and harbor improvements for the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
1884-05-16
53 p. Includes sections of Appendix QQ: 1884 annual report of Capt. Charles F. Powell, Corps of Engineers, detailing construction, surveys and other works of river and harbor improvements for the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
1884-05-16
eration. It is to be 90 feet high, and will impound sufficient water to develop 350,000 horse-power and irrigate 200,000 acres of land. This last project seems to have advanced to almost the point of construction; and if constructed as planned,...
2004-07-20
Appropriated June 10, 1872, for improvement of the Lower Willamette River, Oregon......50, 000 00 Available July 1, 1872.... 53,854 80 Estimate for the fiscal year 1873-''74: Running expenses of the United States dredger to be constructed...
2004-08-26
inspector of the work and did not comply with the specifications for its construction. Operations during the present fiscal year were commenced on the bar at this locality on September 16, 1875, and were suspended on October 21, 1875. Two...

Source Tentative Disposition SI-1, 19, 22, 23, 26, 27 C WI-1, 13, 20, 29, 30 PI-19, 20, 21, 44, 50 W-6 F-16, 19 SI-1, 5, 25, 29, 31, 37, 39, A 42, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 59 WI-1, 3, 13, 14, 30, 31, 36, 38, 40, 45, 46, 51 PI-20, 21,...

rivers and lakes and migrate downstream as juveniles. In the estuary at the river's mouth, they transform from freshwater fish to saltwater fish, then enter the ocean where they migrate far north or south, feed and mature for several years. They...

the meantime, the Inspector, who had gone for help, started after them, carrying their clothes, with a big crowd of men and boys following him. When they came upon them, the poor, deluded creatures followed the Inspector to the Raffle Janni ranch...
2004-07-14
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE XVI FROM THE FERRY TO REVELSTOKE 171 XVII FROM REVELSTOKE TO THE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY 192 XVIII FROM THE FERRY TO THE BOUNDARY: The valley, timber, farms, rainfall, geology. Comments on the Canadians, and their...
2004-06-30
tion with the most efficient development of the potential water power, the control of floods, and the needs of irrigation." In the Pacific Northwest, the "308 Report" on the Columbia River recommended a 10-dam comprehensive plan for the river's...

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