Record Details

page 69

Oregon Digital

Field Value
Title page 69
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.
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. 262.413 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale and 48>24 RGB color tiffs edited in Photoshop CS 8.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, grayscale bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created.
Description Interstate Bridge between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. If a flood of this size had recurred, storage built in the United States before the Treaty dams would have held the level of the river to 31.7 feet—only 3.8 feet less. But the three Canadian storage dams and Libby Dam would now reduce the Portland-Vancouver river level of a comparable flood to 26.7 feet, e.g., a not uncommon level causing minimal damage. The United States derives power benefits because Canadian storage...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1994

© Western Waters Digital Library - GWLA member projects - Designed by the J. Willard Marriott Library - Hosted by Oregon State University Libraries and Press