announced the formation of a special BPA task force to work closely with utilities in making an evaluation of all aspects of thermal generation in the region. Following an initial planning phase, the Bonneville Power Administration joined with 108...
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Placing the steel pier plates on the sides of the Drumgate piers required very accurate alignment in two planes in order to provide an effectual seal with the floating drum gate.
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timber-agricultural economy with industrial payroll development . . . this objective can best be achieved by keeping the wholesale rate for power at a sufficiently low level to offset the disadvantages of high regional freight rates and the...
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Note on album leaf: Below river. Drillers safe from surging waters behind a protecting cofferdam
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Caption on image: Sydney W. Wurzburg and his clerk, Margaret Miller, look down Marcus' main street which will be but a memory after backwater of the Columbia river behind Grand Coulee dam floods the town site. Mr. Wurzburg plans to go on a...
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Membership, Voting, and Jurisdiction
Members of the compact commission include the Governors of the signatory states, ex-officio, and one commissioner appointed by the President of the United States, who serves during the term of office of the...
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Caption included with image: Old Marcus homes and outbuildings, purchased by the Bureau of Reclamation and turned over to the WPA for demolition are shown going up in flames as the town is cleared to receive backwater of the Columbia river now...
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This is excavation of the block 40 pit as it appeared in December of 1935. After the material was all removed beneath the wooden trusses, the huge block of concrete was poured in the usual manner, and the shelf of dirt, left on this side of it to...
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Document: "The Elements of the Administration Plan," 1-28-67
1967-01-28
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Image captions: Water-stage recorder operating in removable shelter unit
over a temporary wooden stilling well.
Current meter and sounding weight used with crane and reel
from a highway bridge.
Typical permanent-type gaging station...
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Here is shown a part of the payroll line on June 04, 1937 as they lined up back of the company Mess Hall. Nearly every "construction stiff" west of the Mississippi River at one time or another passed thru some payroll line of this project." Many...
1937-06-04
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cals, nonferrous metals, shipbuilding, and aircraft manufacture. All industrial use, including mining, increased from 1939 to 1943, inclusive, at the rate of 38.8 percent per year; rural use increased at the rate of 21.5 percent per year; and...
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Basalts of both Eocene and Miocene age from several groups
along the Oregon and Washington coasts have been analyzed for some
major, minor, and trace elements using instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA). The rare earth element (REE)...
1974-09-04 (iso8601)
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Letter: To Mr. McSweeny, from Stewart Udall, Oct 4, 1965 (photocopy), page 1
1965-10-04
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As in other subdivisions, persons engaged in retail trade (13,392) outnumber those of any other group. Construction in progress at Grand Coulee Dam in 1940 helped account for an unusually large proportion of workers in that group. The percentages...
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Numbers of wild Canada geese (Branta canadensis) have increased dramatically during the past 30 years in the lower Columbia and Willamette Valley systems. The damage they cause by grazing and trampling plants can be substantial.
The objectives of...
1999-01-22 (iso8601)
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Document: Congressional Record, "Protecting The Present Users of Lower Colorado River Water," April 25, 1964, page 10
1964-04-25
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forested lands to a very limited extent for grazing livestock during the summer months.
White pine, a most valuable species of commercial timber, is found in important stands in the western part of the subdivision. White pine comprises only...
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