gate at its head and foot, so that it may readily be pumped out in case of needed repairs, or vessels being wrecked in it.
There should be a guard gate at the head of the canal, the top of which should he at least 2 feet higher than the highest...
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of the Lower Willamette and Columbia Rivers, is approved, and the conclusions of the Board concurred in. Future appropriations for these works will, therefore, be expended in accordance with the plans and recommendations therein set forth.
In...
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could have reached the Ferry, nine miles below, by nightfall. As it was' I had made eleven miles on my third day in the rapids.
On examining the River in the morning it was evident that it had risen a foot over night. On the previous afternoon,...
2004-07-12
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Part of channel of North Branch Toutle River in broad outwash plain near Mt St Helens
1941-05-22
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Summary of potential developments—Continued
DAMS AND POWER PLANTS
Installed capacity (kilowatts)
Annual production (million
kilowatt-hours)
Secondary
Name
Firm
Mc Nary (Umatilla Rapids) 690, 000 3, 914 568
Arlington 400, 000...
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Water temperature is one of the most important factors determining the health of fish and other aquatic organisms. If water temperatures warm beyond a critical threshold, particularly during the sensitive life stages of fish, survival can...
2024-11-25
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promptly high jacked by the Endangered Species Act process. As the final Environmental Impact Statement of the System Operation Review said in 1995:
While one of the primary goals of the SOR is to decide on a coordinated operating strategy to...
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BRIDGING NAVIGABLE WATERS. 429
20,1889, (See Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1889, page
372).
The act of July 25,1890, authorized the construction of a pivot draw-
bridge instead of the ponton...
2006-06-16
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APPENDIX UU----REPOKT OF MAJOR JONES. 2511
tho tremendous cutting produced by it had been allowed to approach
its maximum effect. The probabilities were strong that the desired
channel across the bar would be produced...
2006-06-16
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ter—provided the boat could be kept to it. Blackmore said that it looked like too much of a risk, and decided to try to line down the right bank—the one on which we had landed. As the river walls were too steep and broken to allow any of the...
2004-08-09
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Contractor Norris Bros. complete a section of the Icicle pipeline before winter arrives. This pipeline will supply Icicle River water to the hatchery and rearing ponds.
1939-12-21
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REPORT OP MR. ROBERT A. HABERSHAM, ASSISTANT ENGINEER. PORTLAND, OREG., December 11, 1874.
Sir: I present, herewith, tracings of the preliminary maps and profiles of my surveys of the Columbia River, between the Dalles and Celilo, and at the...
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Cowlitz River falls eight miles below Randle, Washington
The drop of the lower falls is 4 feet.
1936-10-24
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The intermittent waste discharge from Camas causes a change in water quality and in river conditions that can be traced with water quality tests (12), and these tests have confirmed calculated river flow data. Each fisherman's report was reviewed...
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Established in 1873 by J.S. Megler.
PH Coll 293.55 Caption on mount: J.G. Megler and Co.'s Cannery. Columbia River, Washington |
This report is an evaluation of the effects of nutrient loading on water quality in the South Umpqua River Basin. The study was done by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with Douglas County, Oregon. Five wastewater treatment plants were...
1996-11-25
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Management of the water resources of the Methow River Basin is changing in response to the listing of three species of fish under the Endangered Species Act and the Washington State-legislated watershed-planning process. Management options must be...
2024-11-25
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Streambed-sediment samples were collected at 22 sites during the summer of 1998 as part of the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program. Sampling sites in the Clark Fork-Pend Oreille and Spokane River basins represented a...
2002-11-01
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Page 3, column 1, paragraph 3, line 9-- "Basic plain" should read "basin plan".
Page 3, column 1, paragraph 4, lines 3-5-- "5,360,000,000 acres"; "3,840,000,000 acres", and "1,520,000,000 acres", should read "5,360,000 acres";...
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and other matters.38 State legislatures control purse strings. State courts play a vital role in the continuing evolution of water law.39 In these respects, the states are a logical focus for tributary water issues.
At the same time, however,...
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Holway R. Jones was a prominent leader of the conservation movement in the Pacific Northwest from 1963, when he moved to Oregon, until his death in 1986. Jones was a librarian but he spent much of his time working on conservation issues. He served...
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nished me. Their plottings showed, while a greater depth still existed at the middle of the sands than on other portions, that a channel there as good as the north one did not exist.
On the approach of fair weather of summer and the annual river...
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These Montana Wildlife Division records (1954-1981) consist
of correspondence, memoranda, reports, clippings, and miscellany extracted from weeded
subject files of the Division. Subjects include wildlife habitat, federal-state...
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water channel is long, crooked, difficult, and dangerous, expecially with a large boat, and a variation of 15 or 20 feet either way from the narrow channel would result in disaster. To complete the high-water channel so as to render it available...
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