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Title page 180
Relation Columbia River
Date 2005-02-22 to 2005-04-11
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Format Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 307.343 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 silt content of most streams is low except during the spring, flood run-off and in those cases where mine mill wastes are discharged into them. The problems raised by the latter conditions are serious on the upper Clark Fork River in the vicinity of Butte and Anaconda and on the Coeur d'Alene River. Floods on the major streams are infrequent, but flash floods on the small streams are not uncommon. Along the Kootenai River in Bonner and Boundary Counties, Idaho, dikes protect a small...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1668

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