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Title page 86
Relation Columbia River
Date 2005-02-22 to 2005-04-11
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. 263.347 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 authorized Columbia Basin project is $341,900,000, at 1940 prices. Water users have contracted to repay an average of $85 per irrigable acre, or a total of $87,465,000. The balance of the cost allocated to irrigation, $254,435,000, will be carried by returns from energy produced at the Grand Coulee power plants. In view of the widespread distribution of that energy through the network of the Bonneville Power Administration and connected systems, it is apparent that power users over a very...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1543

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