Basin is a region of great contrasts. Lofty mountains, studded with glaciers and shrouded in virgin forests, characterize some parts of the basin; in other vast areas, deserts supporting only drab sagebrush and a scanty growth of forage grasses...
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Deadwood Reservoir on the Deadwood River, a tributary to the south fork of the Payette River. Diversion to Payette division lands is made from the Black Canyon Dam.
Power.—Four power plants have been constructed in the Boise River Basin and...
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Canal Acreage
Aberdeen-Springfield 61, 000
Reservation 47, 000
Idaho 35, 000
Anderson and Eagle Rock 32, 000
Great Western and Porter 27,000
Snake River Valley 25, 000
Burgess 21,000
Peoples 20,000
Butte and Market Lake 18,...
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The Ralph E. Wahl Photographs and Papers
comprise photographic materials and textual records reflecting Wahl’s
activities and interests as a photographer and fisherman in the Pacific
Northwest. The collection contains a substantial...
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described, as far as I could, the country in the vicinity of the Okinakane, and will not do so again here.
Sixth. All that portion of the Great Plain of the Columbia lying between the river and the Grand Coulee and Badger Mountains would be...
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Summary of potential developments
IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE (ACRES)
Gravity
Unit
New land
PumpingSupplemental
water
Total benefited
Columbia River, main stem:
Columbia Basin project 0 1, 029, 000 0 1, 029, 000
Franklin D....
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The collection contains materials from
Burg's 50-year career in motion pictures. Includes footage from around the
world: Scandinavia, Spain, Thailand, Venezuela, Britain, Indonesia and much of
the United States, especially Alaska....
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The navigability of the Columbia river permits Portland, located more than 100 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean, to function as the major port of the state of Oregon. It could be expected that the waterfront spanning the greatest share of the...
1975-05-02 (iso8601)
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Papers of a company official with Hudson's Bay Company; John Work was born c. 1792 in Ireland to parents Henry and Letitia
Wark. His last name, Wark, was later anglicized to Work when he began his
career with Hudson’s Bay Company. He had...
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It is believed that after the completion of such a dike further dredging will be unnecessary at Post-Office Bar.
From the lower end of this bar there is a channel with a depth of from 20 to 45 feet, until we reach the mouth of the Willamette...
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ture proposed primarily for power production on the Columbia below Coulee Dam. About 13,600 acres of the land lie in the lower reaches of the Okanogan Valley. The plan to serve that area involves a canal leading from the Foster Creek Dam several...
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below Athalmer, and here built a permanent fort to which he gave the name of "Kootanae House," the remains of which can still be seen just east of the wagon road between Athalmer and Wilmer. Here he remained until the spring of 1808 when he...
2004-07-06
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Money statement.
July 1, 1885, amount available $495 07
Amount received by transfer of property to other improvements and by
deposit 23 04
518 11 July 1, 1886, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of
liabilities outstanding...
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) operates dams in the Columbia River Basin, which encompasses 259,000 square miles of the Pacific Northwest. These dams are multipurpose facilities that fill regional needs for flood control, navigation,...
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CHAPTER II
The Columbia River Basin Among North American rivers the Columbia occupies a position of prominence. Although it is exceeded in volume of water discharged by the Mississippi, McKenzie, and St. Lawrence Rivers, the Columbia is the... |
CHAPTER IX
Lower Columbia GENERAL DESCRIPTION The lower Columbia Basin includes the drainage area of the Columbia River west of the Cascade Mountains. Although much smaller in size than any of the other major subdivisions recognized in the... |
INDEX
Airplanes, 46 Albeni Falls Dam, 54 Alumax Pacific Corporation, 99 Aluminum industry, Pacific Northwest, 57 plant disposal, 52 production, 47, 51 role of government, 51-52 Aluminum Company of America, 39, 46 photo, 40... |
Images of water projects in Washington, primarily the Columbia Basin Project
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This collection contains the administrative papers and landscape architectural drawings of multiple projects from Design Workshop, Inc.; Biographical Note; Design Workshop, Inc. is a leading international landscape architecture firm founded in...
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Irrigation.--Within the Klickitat Basin, opportunity for increase in irrigated acreage is limited to expansion in the Glenwood area. By enlarging the existing main canal and extending it to intercept the west fork of the Klickitat River,...
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Weiser River, a fairly good run of steelhead has been reported in recent years. The Burnt River has been made of little value to salmon or steelhead by gold dredging and heavy diversions for irrigation.
The Salmon River is of great importance to...
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root Valley section, though near the northern end of that valley they swing northwesterly, away from the axis of the trench. The mountains rise abruptly from the Bitterroot Valley to elevations of 9,000 feet. Strongly glaciated, with resulting...
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This collection contains the papers
Arnold Olsen generated and collected while serving as U.S. Representative for
the western Montana Congressional District, along with a few other materials
unrelated to his congressional service....
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APPENDIX T T.
IMPROVEMENT OF LOWER COLUMBIA RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES,
OREGON AND WASHINGTON.
REPORT OF MAJOR W. L. FISK, CORPS OF ENGINEERS, OFFICER IN CHARGE, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1899, WITH OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE...
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Only portions of issues of The Water Report are available in the Klamath Waters Digital Library. FERC is an abbreviation for Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. See the full report at http://www.thewaterreport.com/
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