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The seasonal variation of wind speed fluctuations is studied at four locations in The Dalles area of the Columbia River Gorge. Three of the sites are located in or near the valley floor while the fourth site is on top of a 900 m (3000 ft) ridge...
1976-06-16 (iso8601)
Since 2004, a number of interrelated controversies have surrounded proposals to site a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal near Astoria, Oregon. While public participation has impacted the decision-making process surrounding these proposals, we...
2015-06-08 (iso8601)
Here stands two of the five largest recesses in the frowning scarp of Dry Falls, over whose three and a half mile brink roared and thundered one of the greatest water falls of all geological history. It was three times as wide as the greatest...
2024-11-05
Speech about the role of U.S. water reclamation in world food production
1974-10-31
2007-01-02
2007-01-02
Brochures, maps, publications regarding the Columbia River and its dams

2007-01-02
2007-01-02
"January 2001."
2024-11-05
2004-01-05
2004-12-16
The mouth of the Columbia River (MCR) has a longstanding reputation of hazardous navigational conditions. This reputation has been developing since the first ship, the Columbia, traversed through the inlet in 1792. The hazardous conditions are...
2007-07-19T14:44:27Z (iso8601)
RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS. 447 with deposits of earth.—Capt. Symons submitted report of examina- tion under date of October 13, 1892, He states that all requisite work for the removal, of obstructions and straightening of...
2006-06-16
rounded out complete. From the foot of Squally Hook Rapids to the head of Indian Rapids is about three miles. The water became ominously slack as I neared what appeared to be a number of great rock islands almost completely barring the river. It...
2004-08-23
tended. Since she could hardly have avoided hitting the big roller anyhow, once she was so near, it is probably better that she hit it squarely than sidling. The crash was solid, almost shattering in its intensity, and yet I am not sure that she...
2004-08-17
head of an inconvenient low-water navigation on a draught of 21 feet; 1 foot only could carried to higher points. The amount expended to June 30, 1882, is $109,360.53, and has resulted in making and keeping an easy channel, with a least depth...

Excavation in progress on the pumping plant foundations and in nine of the twelve pumping plant discharge tunnels.
1938-08-24
2024-11-05
with sudden fury, the air was filled with flying sand, and the surface of the River was almost instantly whipped into whitecaps. I could make absolutely no progress downstream, rowing was of no avail, and if I ceased the effort, in spite of the...
2004-07-19
1 map; 20 x 25 cm. The author of this map (and the book it comes in) was a trader in the employ of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, and took part in Astor's first expedition to the northwest to establish the profitability of...
2024-11-05

APPENDIX UU—EEPOET OF MAJOR HANDBUKY. 2831 foriiied tliemain part of the dam, the piles preventing any portion of it being washed*away. It was the original design that all the piles should be sawed off at a uniform height of 4...
2006-06-16
W.P.A Camp Gifford on the shores of the Columbia 84 1/2 miles above the dam.
1940-03-27
2024-11-05
Drilling completed for a round of blasting in a pumping plant discharge tunnel. This is the horizontal section of the tunnel and is 21 feet in diameter.
1938-07-26
2024-11-05
In addition, a large fleet, carrying yearly over 30,000 tons of coal. valued at over $150,000 and over 100,000,000 feet of lumber, valued at over $1,250,000, leave the sound every year under enrollment, not having to enter or clear. The...

and they can be traced if carefully followed. His story is interestingly written, and is well worth perusal as an entertaining tale and as a comparison of his experiences and my own in the descent of the River. Although Freeman lives in Pasadena,...
2004-07-06
Department of the Interior. Bureau of Reclamation. Columbia Basin Project--Washington. Columbia River Dam Topography of Existing Ground Surface at Brett Gravel Pit at end of MWAK Co. contract
1938-04-08
2024-11-05
1 map: 10 x 18 cm. In the end of October in 1805 the Lewis & Clark expedition reached the Schutes of the Columbia, in the area today known as Cascade Locks. The expedition was forced to portage around these falls on November 1st, and again...
2024-11-05

1 map: blueprint, hand col., 39 x 48 cm. Map shows location of northeastern Washington Territory, with the Colville region outlined in red. It also shows a large portion of northern Idaho territory, established in 1863. Major landforms such as the...


A dam across the Columbia River at Grand Coulee appears to have been first advocated by a Coulee City, Wn. newspaper in 1892, but the idea did not gain popular support until this proposal was published in the Wenatchee World on July 18, 1918. Here...
2024-11-05
to the irrigable area provide only part of the information required for an irrigation development. The value of a development clearly will be contingent upon the financial success both of the settlers who go upon the land and of the project as a...

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