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Bonneville and Grand Coulee-Keystone of Northwest Hydropower

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Title Bonneville and Grand Coulee-Keystone of Northwest Hydropower
Relation Power and the Pacific Northwest
Date 2005-04-20 to 2005-05-09
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Description 2 Bonneville and Grand Coulee. Keystone of Northwest Hydropower With the beginning of the Great Ice Age, about one million years ago, huge glaciers—massive sheets of moving ice—spread south out of Canada across much of central and northern Washington. At the farthest ice advance, one gigantic finger referred to as the Okanogan Lobe, blocked the Columbia River essentially where Grand Coulee Dam stands today. The diverted Ice Age river, fed by glacial melt, carried 50 times more...
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