Grand Coulee Dam from North Cliff, showing water from Columbia River Reservoir passing over the spillway drum gates for the first time I in the construction of the dam. There are eleven drum gates, each 125 feet wide, but only 10 are shown...
1942-06-22
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1408 REPOET OP THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, IT. S. ARMY.
The total amount expended on all projects to the end of the fiscal
year 1914 was $12,092,979.30, distributed as follows: South jetty,
$8,317,675.62; north jetty, $868,088.14; altering,...
2006-06-16
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even in the launch. Earl seemed rather of the same mind, too, for he kept edging out to the right every time one of the big combers lurched over at him. With the engine running like a top, he kept her in comparatively good water all the way...
2004-08-16
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said he would start a car off at once to take us there.
We spent the afternoon helping Roos patch up the continuity of his "farmer" picture. Although Captain Armstrong had appeared in all the scenes shot since we started with the skiff, he had...
2004-08-11
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ENTRANCE TO THE COLUMBIA RIVER
Surveyed August and September 1885 under the direction of Capt: Chas: F. Powell, Corps of Engineers
By Lieutenant Edward Burr.
Nautical Miles
Statute Miles
References
Soundings are expressed in feet...
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her through if the course had been clear. Missing two or three rocks by inches, she rasped half her length along another, and onto a fourth—lurking submerged by a foot—she jammed full tilt. It was her port bow that struck, and from the crash...
2004-08-09
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old town—what had been the metropolitan centre of Revelstoke in the days when it was the head of navigation of steamers from below the Arrow Lakes, and before the railway had come to drag settlement a mile northeastward and away from the...
2004-08-04
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Image captions: PHOTOGRAPH NO. 3.—MAIN FALL OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER AT CELILO,
OREGON, LOOKING FROM OREGON SHORE
This fall is immediately to the right of the numerous smaller falls shown in photograph No. 2.
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Photographs taken by Randall V. Mills
and Hazel Emery Mills when they were working on the books "Stern wheelers up
Columbia" and "Railroads down the valleys." Images are mostly snapshots, date
mostly from the 1940s, and include river...
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at this point that the Canadian Pacific Railway makes its second crossing of the Columbia from the high bench on the Selkirk side, and just below is the highway bridge. After Steamboat Rapids are passed the River is not so closely confined as...
2004-07-14
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Rocks removed in 1873, under direction of Maj. H.M. Robert, shown thus
""" 1874, 1875, "" Maj. N. Michler ""
""" 1876, 1877, 1878, " Maj. John M. Wilson ""
"yet to be removed.
True Meridian
Map of UMATILLA UPPER RAPID on the UPPER...
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No. G.—Gauging Willamette Slough, 11 miles below its head.
Surface of water, September 22, 4.2 feet above zero.
Section, Area. Velocity,
Volume discharged.
Section. Area, Velocity.
Volume discharged.
Ft, per min. Cu. ft. per min. Ft....
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David Thompson, Pathfinder
and the Columbia River
By
T. C. ELLIOTT
Member of American Historical Association
and of Oregon Historical Society
The Scimitar Press
Kettle Falls, Wash.
1911
2004-07-29
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With diversion of the Columbia River through the North Shore spillway bays at the U.S Army Corps of Engineers' John Day Lock and Dam, barges and tows are now utilizing the temporary channel and permanent lock of the huge multipurpose project. Here...
1966-11-05
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Looking upstream at McNary Lock and Dam, a Walla Walla district, U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers' project on the Columbia River, showing the 7,300-foot long multipurpose project with its lock, north and south shore fish ladders, spillway bays and...
1966-11-05
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CONTRACTING Devoted only to the work of contracting Official Organ American Society of Engineering Contractors COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY 70 Miles with Warrenite Surfaced Over macadam Compliments of WARREN BROTHERS COMPANY BOSTON, Mass. By George...
2004-06-14
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Gravel Berm on west side of section "E" placed by temporary conveyor. Material diverted from bridge conveyor at center tower.
1936-04-30
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United States Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF MINES
WEST 222 MISSION AVENUE SPOKANE, WASHINGTON 99201
Western Field Operation Center
February 8, 1974
Col. A. R. Marshall
Deputy Division Engineer Corps of Engineers
210 Custom...
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Subsection 2.0.7 [2B6] As suggested there should be a power policy to prevent contracts being made to industries before the power is available. This would remove the obligation to construct more power sources.
Power contracts with industries are...
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Subsection 1.C.3
Subsection 1.C.3 considers the potential impact of pumped-storage and off-stream storage on total area resources. With one exception the discussion covers the aspects of these subjects which require further investigations. There...
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Seattle District (Cont'd)
SI-33- American Small Farms Institute
SI-35- Grant County P.U.D.
SI-36- Chelan County Industrial Development Council
SI-37- Chelan County Port District
SI-38- CREST, Columbia River Environmental Study Team...
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Tentative Disposition
E
WI-7, 8, 9, 10, 22, 52, 53 F
F-2, W-6 WI-73
F-3, W-6 F SI-1, 2, 5, 11, 19, 25, 29,
39, 45, 46, 49, 50, 52,
74, 77
WI-3, 13, 15, 17, 28, 31, 32
34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 42, 46,
51, 57, 73
PI-20, 21, 50, 60,...
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Source
WI-28, 35, 56, 70 C SI-55, 63
PI-96
F-17
PI-22 F-17
Tentative Disposition
F
Problem or Area of Concern
24. Fish passage facilities should be designed to pass more of the desirable species; sturgeon, salmon, steelhead,...
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Source
Tentative Disposition
SI-78 C F-6
WI-69 C F-6
SI-71 C PI-70
F-6, 12
WI-62 C
Problem or Area of Concern
1.( Cont) COMMENT: (Applies to Nos. 1 thru 6). The 1972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments provide...
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