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Title page 347
Relation Columbia River
Date 2005-02-22 to 2005-04-11
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Description lock there is 76 feet wide and 500 feet long. The controlling depth over the sills of the lock is 24.2 feet at low water, though a depth of 26 feet is available about 95 percent of the time. The pool above the dam provides a deep-water channel to The Dalles. On the Willamette River above Portland, improvements have been made permitting navigation by craft of shallow draft.. To Oregon City, 26 miles above the mouth, a channel 8 feet deep and 500 feet wide is maintained. At Oregon City, four...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1799

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