page 51

The hydropower system's financial commitment to reclamation is significant. In 1985, the General Accounting Office estimated that $14.1 billion in irrigation costs were scheduled on paper to be recovered through power revenues.131 However, because...

change in Columbia River hydrograph (chart)

Change in Columbia River Hydrograph at the Dalles, 1879-92 Percent of Annual Runoff
Image caption: Figure 3.-The effect of storage projects on the river's seasonal flow.

page 302

SECOND PORTLAND, OREG., DISTRICT. COLUMBIA RIVER, OREG.--Gauging of waters. (Index prior to 1913, p. 1621, vol. 1.) APPROPRIATIONS. In charge: Total, 13, 3117. Maj. J. F. Mclndoe, R., 13, 3117. OPERATIONS. ENGINEERS. Establishing...

2004-10-26

page 463

BRIDGING NAVIGABLE WATERS. 463 1,1892, harbor lines at Vancouver and Olympia and in Bellingham Bay were considered by a Board of Engineers, consisting of Col. G. H. Men- dell, Maj. Thos. H. Handbury, and Capt. Thos. W. Symons,...

2006-06-16

pages 312-313

looked well to the oars and the trim of the boat before shoving off. Once out into the river, I could see that the rapid was white from bank to bank, but still nothing that ought to trouble us seriously. I stood for a minute or two looking ahead...

2004-08-17

pages 244-245

"sizing up" the situation, and then leaving the point I recrossed the bay to its east shore. Desiring to get a lunch before starting out to search for a team, I was looking around for firewood, and finding none was ready to give up the search when...

2004-07-19

pages 214-215

short distance above its mouth. In the Columbia, just above the Kootenay, are Big and Little Tin Cup Rapids. They were rather choppy, but I ran them without trouble. A half mile farther was Kootenay Rapids, a mere riffle, easily run; and a few,...

2004-07-14

Diversion Slot

A 50-ft. wide diversion slot between high blocks in west power house area.

1937-05-01
2024-11-04

pages 6-7

[blank page] PREFACE
In submitting the story of my trip down the Columbia River I do not do so as a writer but as a traveler, and in a sense as an explorer. It is a narrative mainly of personal experiences and impressions, and is intended to...

2004-06-30

Grand Coulee Long View in 1937

Grand Coulee Dam, viewed from the east side. In the foreground appear trestles, and crane equipment used for placing concrete; the middle ground shows excavation work in progress in the main river channel; the background shows concrete placed...

1937-03-17
2024-11-04

page 155

Map Symbol R3 incorporated. All facilities must be harmonious or complementary to the site. DEVELOPMENT SCENARIO: The land is privately owned. The opportunity exists on this large site for a potential Indian fishing site. The Army Corps...

Fall Chinook Salmon

Kalama Hatchery Racks with man holding a fall chinook salmon

1936-09-24

Little Sandy Channel

Master scanned with Epson 1640XL at 800 dpi. Image manipulated with Adobe Photoshop 7.0.

1940-02-29
2003-01-01

Big Sandy Channel looking upstream

Master scanned with Epson 1640XL at 800 dpi. Image manipulated with Adobe Photoshop 7.0.

1940-02-29
2003-01-01

Gordon Creek rearing pong site

Rearing pond site at mouth of Gordon Creek, tributary to Sandy River

1941-05-26
2003-01-01

Use of sediment fractionation techniques to establish a geochemical link between...

1988-07-13 (iso8601)

Moving Inchelium High School gymnasium, Washington, ca. 1941

Caption included with image: Moving Inchelium High School gymnasium. Cut in sections and loaded on dollies the Inchelium High School gymnasium, last building to be removed in the old town, is shown on the road leading out of the old town and up to...

Deepest Hole at Base of Grand Coulee Dam

This is a view of the deepest hole in bedrock on the east side; 120 feet deeper than average bedrock surface, and 175 feet below low water level of the river (935)". These deep fissures in the bedrock were filled with a dense, sticky clay deposit...

2024-11-04

"Great Flood Channel"

This view from the west wall of the Coulee, with the southwestern part of the Hartline Basin in the background, shows the remains of the great flood channel cut as the torrent rushed toward the narrow outlet of the Hartline Basin to the right....

2024-11-04

Confidential Report to M.W.D. Directors - Conference with Secretary of the Interior Udall

Document: From Joseph Jenson, Confidential Report to M.W.D. Directors, "Conference with Secretary of the Interior Udall," December 15, 1964 (thermofax), page 1

page 1642

WW-30 WILLAMETTE RIVER. NOTE.—Imp. of this waterway bound up, in some measure, with imp. of the Columbia, into which it flows. Part. Title. Period. Appropria- Hons. a Willamette R. below Portland See p. 1616 of this Index. b...

pages image-363

Image caption: MULTNOMAH FALLS, COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY, NEAR PORTLAND --page break-- quite ready to confess that I should probably fail to watch the clouds again under similar circumstances. There were a few stray mavericks of sunshine shafts...

2004-08-24

page 1974

cause exposed more and not strongly enough walled. These two works were for temporary purpose. The general effect of the jetty-work has been to make the sands fill against the south side and to move seaward, as expected, the shorelines on that...

Map of the Columbia River

MAP OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER FROM THE CASCADES CANAL TO THE FOOT OF BRADFORDS ISLAND SHOWING LOCATION OF WORK DONE ON RIVER IMPROVEMENT DURING SEASON OF 1884-5 Scale 800 feet to 1 inch WASHINGTON TERRITORY OREGON Cascades Canal To...

page 2536

by Lieut. P. M. Price, Corps of Engineers, whose interesting report is also transmitted for your information. Lieutenant Price reported to me January 31, 1881, in compliance with Special Order 255, paragraph 6, Adjutant-General's Office,...