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Screening and Washing Plant Below Brett Gravel Pitt.

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Title Screening and Washing Plant Below Brett Gravel Pitt.
Description Aggregate screening and washing plant at foot of Brett gravel pit. Columbia River in distance where is located a 19,500 g.p.m. pumping plant discharging to a 16-inch pipe leading to a 150,000 gallon surge tank seen in lower right hand corner. In this corner is the 60-inch conveyor from the raw stock pile running to two 6 ft. by 22 ft. Trommel screens and two 20-inch gyratory crushers. From scalping screens the aggregate is recombined on a 48-inch conveyor to balancing pile and from there is... Photograph of cleaning and sorting plant constructed below Brett pit to facilitate production of materials for concrete.
Relation Part of Western Waters Digital Library: http://harvester.lib.utah.edu/wwdl/
Creator Photographer Unknown; United States Department of the Interior: Bureau of Reclamation
Subject Conveying machinery--Construction--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Brett gravel pit (Wash.)--Cement--Grand Coulee Dam; Concrete; Concrete plants--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
Coverage Dam Construction; Dams; Rivers; Construction; Excavation; Concrete United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Type photographs; Construction
Identifier 40b4v3p187.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,1164
Date 9/26/1935 2007
Publisher Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm
Source Columbia Basin Project History (Vol. III, Page 187)-Cage 40, Box 6 of the Frank Arthur Banks Papers, 1913-1957: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/Holland/masc/finders/cg40.htm
Rights To order a reproduction please see: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/policies.htm; or contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691. For permission to publish please contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691.
Format Original photographic prints were scanned at 24 bit 3000 PPI by the long side for master TIFF files on an Epson Expression 10,000 XL scanner. While 24 bit 150 PPI JPEG also created and added to the CONTENTdm database at the WSU Libraries.
Language English

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