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Construction of two storage dams in the Milton-Freewater project would provide about 12,000 acres of land with supplemental water and 2,500 acres with full water supply. The Milton Reservoir on the Walla Walla River about 3 miles upstream from...
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red to, "that actual construction ought to await the improvement of the river from the foot of the main rapids to the lower steamboat landing," and for the reasons stated.
The effect of removing the rocks and reefs in the bed of the river will...
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Irrigation.—Two additional developments are contemplated in the basin above Owyhee Dam. Within the Duck Valley Indian Reservation additional surveys are required to determine accurately the ultimate irrigable area of land for which water rights...
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1 mile below the Celilo landing, and extends directly down stream for nearly 1.75 miles. Large openings at the shore end of the ledge make the partial fall known as the Horseshoe, and whose waters escape to the river below through the deep narrow...
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Irrigation from White River and tributaries is under three small ditch companies and many minor diversions. Storage control is of minor consequence and, in most years, water shortages occur in the late season. The stream grades are steep and the...
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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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2. The Snake River and the "Two Rivers" Concept
The Snake River, the Columbia's largest tributary, drains more than 40 percent of the surface area of the Columbia Basin, yet supplies only about 20 percent of the Columbia's flow. 62 Most of the...
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The Columbia has joined this debate more than once. Up to this time, the course of the river governance debate has gone through three phases.
Early proposals for comprehensive authority, and the reality of ad hoc management. The early debates...
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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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ing at the bars during construction of permanent works and on shoal places in the river below Saint Helens, and in snagging operations.
The natural depth of river channel was not more than 12 feet at low-water on the shoalest place.
The amount...
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average annual duration is very short. Steamers plying here are large and powerful. Barges are much used; they are fitted with sails and frequently sail upstream ; winds prevail in that direction, except during whiter. There are several lumber and...
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reservoir levels can preclude food production at the river's edge.36 Scouring flows that create salmon gravels have been eliminated. Migratory conditions, water salinity and temperature in the estuary and ocean have been changed.37 A juvenile fish...
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to Columbia City, on the Columbia, for sea-going vessels and steamers drawing 20 feet or more, by the construction of a system of dikes and dams formed of piles and loose stone, which would utilize the available waters and currents of these rivers...
2006-01-03
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it from Wenatchee and continues northward, up the Okanogan River, and across the Border into British Columbia. Opposite to Brewster the Columbia is over a mile wide but is filled with several large, low sandbars. At this point, the River meets an...
2004-07-19
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This region, more particularly in the vicinity of Walla Walla and on the Snake River, is rapidly being settled. The products are increasing from year to year, and the impediments to navigation in the Snake and Columbia Rivers are all that prevent...
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streams, from west to east; the Deschutes River, John Day River, Willow Creek, and Umatilla River, and canyons of their tributaries. The interstream areas, however, are extensive and relatively undissected. The best known section comprises the...
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two miles, is from Latourell to Crown Point 14a total rise of 500 ft. From Portland to Chanticleer, twenty-two miles, the rise is 875 ft. Engineer and Contractor readers of Contracting who consider this problem and study the accompanying typical...
2004-06-16
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THE COLUMBIA RIVER SALMON FISHERIES. (Continued from first page.) wheat crop of Oregon and a part of Washington to Liverpool, and it has also a considerable trade in lumber. Its chief importance, however, is derived from the extensive and...
2004-03-02
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For this most arduous part of the voyage there were four in the party, with a big double-ended boat specially built for rough water. Further down, for a considerable stretch, we were three, in a skiff. Then, for a couple of hundred miles, there...
2004-08-03
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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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CONDENSED HISTORY OF THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE LOWER WILLAMETTE AND COLUMBIA RIVERS, FROM PORTLAND, OREGON, TO THE SEA.
The Columbia is first mentioned by Jonathan Carver, in 1768, as a stream rising on the western slope of the lands dividing...
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watt-hours. On tributaries of the Willamette not affected by enlargement of the 3 flood-control reservoirs, there are 21 potential power developments, and on the Lewis and Cowlitz Rivers, 25. The 46 latter potential developments have not been...
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had been carrying had ceased to be in point now her voyage was over. It had been a very appropriate name for a boat on the Columbia, though, I assured him, and I was going to keep it to use if I ever made the voyage again.
Portland, although it...
2004-08-24
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Chapter VIII
MIDDLE COLUMBIA GENERAL DESCRIPTION The middle Columbia Basin is the plateau and mountain country drained by the Columbia River between its junction with the Snake near Pasco, Wash., and the head of tidewater at Bonneville... |
