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Spillway and drum gate construction--spillway section from left bank [02]

University of Idaho Digital Collections

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Title Spillway and drum gate construction--spillway section from left bank [02]
Creator Fuller, H.W.
Date 1944-08-16
Description General view of the spillway section of Grand Coulee Dam, taken from the west bank for the Columbia River. On this date, approximately 80,000 cubic feet of water per second was plunged nearly 350 feet vertically down the face of the dam, creating a waterfall more than twice the height of Niagara. An additional 25,000 cubic feet of water per second is passing through the hydro-turbine installed in the west powerhouse.
Subject Dam construction--Washington (State)--1940-1950;
Coverage United States--Washington--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam Grand Coulee Dam
Source PG 94, Box 1, Spillway and Drum Gate Construction, 2 4138
Publisher University of Idaho Library Digital Initiatives, http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/ University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives
Relation Columbia River Basin Project Collection http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/crbp/
Language eng
Type Image;StillImage
Format image/jpg
Rights Material produced by the United States Army Corp of Engineers. In Public Domain. For more information, please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Identifier http://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/crbproj/id/1161

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