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S S 8.
GAUGING WATERS OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER AND PRINCIPAL TRIBUTARIES.
The object here is to operate an automatic gauge at Astoria and maintain staff-gauges above, for pilots' information, and for record of...
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The power barge,"Paul Bunyan," was built by W.P.A. forces and launched into the Columbia River Reservoir on January 04, 1939.
1939-01-04
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A black-and-white photograph. Written on the bottom in white is the caption "McCord Creek Falls Columbia River Highway, Ore. 495". The water from the falls is shown streaming towards the camera over rounded river rocks. The view of the forest...
2004-08-03
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A black and white photograph of what has been identified as a wooden burial structure on the top of Memaloose Island in the Columbia River. At least 18 skulls and half a dozen long bones sit on top of the board roof of a wooden hut-like structure....
2004-03-24
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Tentative Disposition
PI-77 A
PI-82 A
Problem or Area of Concern
14. (Cont) COMMENT: A reconnaissance scope study concluded in 1972 found that prospective commerce would not justify expenditure of Federal funds.
15. Some...
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Source
Tentative Disposition
PI-21, 41, 50, 65, 66 B
Problem or Area of Concern
13. (Cont) COMMENT: stream water quality and prevention of stream sedimentation and debris include: preventing the falling and yarding of timber across live...
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The mix of emphasis areas in the Concept Plan creates an overall design for public recreation in the National Scenic Area. This overall design can be best summarized in eight design concepts that relate directly to the emphasis areas described...
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1 map: 10 x 18 cm.
The Lewis & Clark expedition reached the mouth of the Columbia River in November, 1805. After a several week delay due to inclement weather, the expedition mapped the area thoroughly before choosing to spend the winter a...
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AREA
The section of the Lower Columbia River from Bonneville Dam to Cathlamet, Washington, with which this report is concerned, is shown in Figure I. This 104-mile reach is more highly developed than any other comparable length of the main...
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irrigation development, these matters must receive continuing review by the Department and be subjects on which close collaboration between it and the War Department is maintained so that the immediate program will at all times be in the best...
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A. Early Tributary Development
Early in the 19th century, the Hudson's Bay Company, arriving from Canadian possessions in the north, began trading in furs. Soon the Company undertook a policy of over-trapping in the Wallowas and other mountains...
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Construction in progress on pier for new highway bridge at Kettle Falls. Relocated primary state highway No. 3 will cross the Columbia River Reservoir on this bridge.
1940-06-13
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New coast and river craft registered at Astoria, 8; tonnage, 222.44.
The above statements include those vessels twice discharging or receiving part cargo at Astoria and Portland, which class is principally made up of the San Francisco passenger...
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A black-and-white stereoscopic view published by O.W. Watson Co. of Spokane, Washington. The caption reads "Cape Horn, Columbia River". In the foreground is the river. On the far bank rounded rock columns topped by evergreens dominate the picture....
2004-08-03
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The following has been telegraphed to the Chief of Engineers on the 12th of February, 1875:
Length of canal through solid rock around Cascades of the Columbia, 2,600 feet; rise, 21 feet at low water; length of locks, 215 feet; width, 40 feet;...
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A black and white photograph of The Dalles, Oregon, taken from a hill southeast of town ca. 1908. In the background to the north the Columbia River winds its way to the sea; beyond it rise up low mountains. There are a few buildings on the...
2004-03-24
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Label on verso: Date: June 27, 1941 OP 65-2-93-146, Dist. 1; PHOTO BY: Morgan Fitz, Camp Kettle; COUNTY: Stevens; Neg. No. 909; Title: Columbia River Reservour (sic) Clear. Prog. Caption: Completed Reservour (sic) lake bed half-mile south of...
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Document: "Snake-Colorado Project, A Plan to Transport Surplus Columbia River Basin Water to the Arid Southwest", October, 1963, table 6
1963-10-01
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Document: Framework for Comparative Economic Studies on Long Range Water Supply From Pacific Southwest, 1964, page 2
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COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN
MAJOR SUBDIVISIONS
division. The extensive irrigated areas in it are served largely from the lower Boise, Payette, Owyhee, and Malheur Rivers, from the upper Salmon, and from the middle Powder and Grande Ronde Rivers. As...
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efforts that employ natural habitat functions where possible.169 The Strategy also called for state water management agencies to explore a regional agreement to protect instream flows for salmon and to deny new water appropriations that would harm...
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386 REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, U. S. ARMY.
IMPROVEMENT OF WILLAMETTE RIVER, OREGON, AND OF LOWER
COLUMBIA RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES, OREGON AND WASH-
INGTON.
Officer in charge, Maj. Thomas H. Handbury, Corps...
2006-06-16
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picture, and was ordered on to New York to report. We were both a good deal disappointed not to have a pictorial record of the "farmer" actually seeing the sea; in fact, we did some hours of "location" scouting in the hope of finding a substitute...
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2480 REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, U. S. ARMY.
should be made, and the use of the portages let to the highest bidder on
bonds for faithful service. The distance between the portages would be
about 50 miles, and transportation people...
2006-06-16
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northward for five or six hundred feet before uniting with the main river. It was the savage swirling of water in that rock-walled elbow where the "somersault" takes place that prompted the imaginative French-Canadian voyageurs to apply the...
2004-08-11
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