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RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS. 419 River, which gave the most trouble at low-water stages. By scrapiug away the gravel and concentrating the scattered water into one chan- nel by means of cheaply constructed wing...
2006-06-16
Raymond Earle Kerr was a U.S. Navy Commander and a conservationist. The Raymond Earle Kerr papers contain material concerning Kerr's activities relating to the problems of air and water pollution in Oregon. The papers are arranged by organizations...

Pacific Coast on the project for a canal around the Cascades of the Columbia River, Oregon, for which an appropriation of $90,000 was made by the river and harbor act of August 14, 1876, appear to be judicious and are concurred in by me. I have,...

9E Sandy Basin 47 LATOURELL PRAIRIE 1000 3060 219 14.8 220 **** RA 5300 47 N45 33.0 W122 0.5 EXIST CCLUMBIA RIVER 35 1 22200 4500 6000 156 10.5 620 **** 31700 125 1 26200 50 MCCORD CREEK 1000 3040 2C4 13.8 140 **** RA 5400 50 N45 35.0 W121...

Rivers would be required for a substantial part of the water supply. Investigations of the project have not yet been undertaken. Power.—About 5,500 kilowatts of firm power could be developed on the Little White Salmon River by constructing a...

the water. The current would catch the rope, drag it down stream, then release it, and it would fly back upstream to repeat the process. It was the flip-flop, flip-flop of this rope that I had heard and thought was someone chopping. The rope was...
2004-07-07
relative elevations of consecutive dams. The profile sheet of water surfaces plainly shows this condition of river regimen. For the same locality changes of slopes at different stages are due to engorgements of the river, or, in other words,...

1 map : 27 x 40 cm. Before the creation of the Walla Walla District on November 1, 1948, all work done by the War Department's Corp of Engineers on waterways in the west was handled by the district headquarters in Portland, Oregon. Most jobs done...


among scientists and managers than ever before. By 1995, all of the basin's recovery plans, Return to the River, and the National Research Council's Upstream report urged an adaptive approach.21 Other essential pieces of an adaptive management...

The slight precipitation received on the plateaus, the great depth to ground water, and the fact that streams with continuous flow throughout the summer lie in deep canyons have made the provision of adequate water supplies a major problem over...

The changes suggested in the recommendations of this study would push traditional political boundaries incrementally toward the National Research Council model: toward more coincidence between governmental and ecological systems, more effective...

to the vast areas of mountain wilderness and sagebrush desert which are virtually uninhabited. Much the greater part of the basin has a sparse population; concentrations are limited to scattered areas. The average population density of 10 persons...

THE GREAT RIVER OF THE NORTHWEST. A STREAM WITH A FUTURE. BY KATHERINE LOUISE SMITH. IN THESE bustling days it is difficult to approach the mighty Columbia, especially where it flows into the Pacific, without indulging in historical...
2004-03-02
206 p. In the Western Water Policy Review Act of 1992, Congress charged the President with reviewing and reporting on federal activities in the west that affect the allocation and use of water resources. The legislation directed the Western Water...
1997-08-01
This collection contains photographs taken by Harold M. Brown (1887-1956), a commercial photographer in Oregon and Washington, from circa 1909-1956. Subjects include photographs of the lumber and shipping industries in northwestern...

206 p. In the Western Water Policy Review Act of 1992, Congress charged the President with reviewing and reporting on federal activities in the west that affect the allocation and use of water resources. The legislation directed the Western Water...
1997-08-01
variably three. Many of the spurs of the hills reach the River in a succession of narrow, rocky points, necessitating short tunnels' on the railways paralleling the stream. At one place on the North Bank Road I counted five tunnels in a half mile....
2004-07-22
Benson immediately below the upper falls and over the chasm cut by the rushing waters. Near here the tracks of the O. W. R. & N. Co. occupied all the available space between the river and the mountain side. The danger of slides precluded any...
2004-06-16
This is a view of the lower end of the Little Dalles rapids, showing its narrow channel, only 200 feet wide, in comparison to the river farther downstream. Here in the Dalles the water was more than 200 feet deep. This mad rush of swirling water...
2024-11-24
Willamette-Cowlitz lowland as well as a tidewater channel from the sea to the lowland. LOWER COLUMBIA EMPLOYED WORKERS IN RELATION TO NATURAL RESOURCES 1940 * Employment in Service and in Manufacturing activities other .than production...

It is practicable to make a training wall for the ebb waters by substituting for the stone dike a double or triple row of piles, and filling the spaces with fascines and stone. Such a temporary and experimental dike is, however, not recommended....

THE COLUMBIA RIVER SALMON FISHERIES. Among the many remarkable panoramas of natural scenery which unfold themselves to the' traveler through the great Northwest, there is nothing to surpass that which is seen from the overland train as it winds...
2004-03-02
Only portions of issues of The Water Report are available in the Klamath Waters Digital Library. See the full report at http://www.thewaterreport.com/
2004-05-15
2008-07-18
2006-06-13
You will see from the above statement of the results obtained by gauging that the volume of water passing through the Willamette Slough during the low stage of the river is greater than that brought down by the river proper, and that the amount of...

Problem or Area of Concern Source PI-60, 96 E F-18 Tentative Disposition PI-98 4.(Cont) available below Portland, from the mouth of the Columbia to Portland. Proper investigation, also, undoubtedly would turn up an adequate source of...

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