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The Cowlitz River has three major hydroelectric dams, with several small-scale hydropower and sediment retention structures within the Cowlitz Basin. The Cowlitz Falls Project is a 70 megawatt hydroelectric dam built in the early 1990s and completed in 1994. The dam is 140 feet (43 m) high and 700 feet (210 m) wide.
Mossyrock Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Cowlitz River near Mossyrock in Lewis County, Washington, United States. The reservoir created by the dam is called Riffe Lake. The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric production while flood control is a secondary function. [1] The dam is the tallest in Washington state [3] and its ...
Shore length 1. 52 mi (83.7 km) [2] Surface elevation. 778.5 ft (237 m) [2] References. [1][2][3] 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Riffe Lake is a long reservoir on the Cowlitz River in the U.S. state of Washington. The 23.5 mi (38 km) lake was created by the construction of Mossyrock Dam, the tallest dam in the state, [4] in 1968 ...
The largest dam in Washington, in terms of structural volume, reservoir capacity and electricity production, is the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River. The tallest dam is Mossyrock Dam on the Cowlitz River, at 606 feet (185 m). The longest dam is O'Sullivan Dam on Crab Creek, at 19,000 feet (5,800 m).
The current view from the McKinley Overlook on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024 in Tacoma, WA. The McKinley Overlook is set to be renovated after Tacoma City Council approved of a nearly $600,000 contract ...
September 1, 2024 at 3:00 AM. The largest dam removal project in US history is finally complete, after crews last week demolished the last of the four dams on the Klamath River. It’s a ...
Taidnapam Park. / 46.470°N 122.165°W / 46.470; -122.165. Taidnapam Park ( tide-nuh-pom) is a park in Lewis County, Washington and is situated in Glenoma at the mouth of the Cowlitz River with its confluence at Riffe Lake. The grounds are under the oversight of Tacoma Public Utilities .
Gifford Pinchot National Forest is a National Forest located in southern Washington, managed by the United States Forest Service. With an area of 1.32 million acres (5,300 km 2), it extends 116 km (72 mi) along the western slopes of Cascade Range from Mount Rainier National Park to the Columbia River. The forest straddles the crest of the South ...