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  2. Bonneville Dam - Wikipedia

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    June 30, 1987 [5] Bonneville Lock and Dam / ˈbɒnəvɪl / consists of several run-of-the-river dam structures that together complete a span of the Columbia River between the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington at River Mile 146.1. [6] The dam is located 40 miles (64 km) east of Portland, Oregon, in the Columbia River Gorge.

  3. John Day Dam - Wikipedia

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    The John Day Dam is a concrete gravity run-of-the-river dam spanning the Columbia River in the northwestern United States. [3] The dam features a navigation lock plus fish ladders on both sides. The John Day Lock has the highest lift (at 110 feet or 34 meters) of any U.S. lock. [4] The reservoir impounded by the dam is Lake Umatilla, [5] and it ...

  4. Fish ladder - Wikipedia

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    Pool-and-weir fish ladder at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River Drone video of a fish way in Estonia, on the river Jägala FERC Fish Ladder Safety Sign. A fish ladder, also known as a fishway, fish pass, fish steps, or fish cannon is a structure on or around artificial and natural barriers (such as dams, locks and waterfalls) to facilitate diadromous fishes' natural migration as well as ...

  5. List of tributaries of the Columbia River - Wikipedia

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    Left tributary Right tributary Length (km) Basin size (km 2) . Average discharge (m 3 /s) . Lower Columbia. Mouth to Bonneville Dam. Youngs: 43 257.6 14.7 Grays: 48 320 15.9 Elochoman

  6. Chief Joseph Dam - Wikipedia

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    The Chief Joseph Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River, 2.4 km (1.5 mi) upriver from Bridgeport, Washington. The dam is 877 km (545 mi) upriver from the mouth of the Columbia at Astoria, Oregon. It is operated by the USACE Chief Joseph Dam Project Office and the electricity is marketed by the Bonneville Power Administration .

  7. Bridge of the Gods (land bridge) - Wikipedia

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    Bridge of the Gods (land bridge) Coordinates: 45.6589°N 121.9162°W. The Bridge of the Gods was a natural dam created by the Bonneville Slide, a major landslide that dammed the Columbia River near present-day Cascade Locks, Oregon in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The river eventually breached the bridge and washed much of it away ...

  8. Lake Bonneville - Wikipedia

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    pluvial lake (a paleolake created by a change in water balance in the basin) Etymology. Benjamin Bonneville. Surface area. ~20,000 sq mi (51,000 km 2) (at max. lake level) Max. depth. over 980 ft (300 m) Lake Bonneville was the largest Late Pleistocene paleolake in the Great Basin of western North America.

  9. 9 new bills filed to reverse Biden administration’s Snake ...

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    Annette Cary. May 15, 2024 at 8:00 AM. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., has filed a package of nine bills to reverse parts of a new agreement that he sees as the de facto breaching of the lower Snake ...