Record Details
page 25
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 25 |
| Relation | River in Common |
| Date | 2005-01-12 to 2005-02-16 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 195.265 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | The river was uniquely suited to hydropower production, however. It is a relatively steep river, dropping an average of about two feet per mile (compared to Mississippi's six inches per mile). It flows in a solid rock channel suitable for dam foundations. It is generally free of silt, assuring long reservoir life. Indeed, the Columbia has been seen as a nationally unique source of hydropower. Some have said it potentially could produce about 40 percent of the nation's hydropower, at the... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1242 |
