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  2. Bonneville Dam - Wikipedia

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    The dam is located 40 miles (64 km) east of Portland, Oregon, in the Columbia River Gorge. The primary functions of Bonneville Lock and Dam are electrical power generation and river navigation. The dam was built and is managed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

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

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    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, but the event is remembered in local legends of the Native Americans ...

  4. Bonneville Power Administration - Wikipedia

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    The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is an American federal agency operating in the Pacific Northwest. BPA was created by an act of Congress in 1937 to market electric power from the Bonneville Dam located on the Columbia River and to construct facilities necessary to transmit that power.

  5. Bonneville, Oregon - Wikipedia

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    Bonneville. Bonneville is an unincorporated community in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States, on Interstate 84 and the Columbia River. Bonneville is best known as the site of Bonneville Dam. North Bonneville, Washington is across the river. For decades before the dam was built, Bonneville was popular as a picnic spot for people living along ...

  6. Bridge of the Gods (modern structure) - Wikipedia

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    The Bridge of the Gods is a steel truss cantilever bridge that spans the Columbia River between Cascade Locks, Oregon, and Washington state near North Bonneville. It is approximately 40 miles (64 km) east of Portland, Oregon, and 4 miles (6.4 km) upriver from Bonneville Dam. It is a toll bridge operated by the Port of Cascade Locks. The bridge ...

  7. Lake Bonneville - Wikipedia

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    Lake Bonneville was the largest Late Pleistocene paleolake in the Great Basin of western North America. It was a pluvial lake that formed in response to an increase in precipitation and a decrease in evaporation as a result of cooler temperatures. The lake covered much of what is now western Utah and at its highest level extended into present ...

  8. 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.

  9. List of crossings of the Columbia River - Wikipedia

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    147.1. Lake Bonneville. at Bonneville, Oregon and North Bonneville, Washington. 45°38′32″N 121°56′41″W  /  45.642265°N 121.944792°W  / 45.642265; -121.944792  (Bonneville Dam) Bridge of the Gods. 148.3. Pacific Crest Trail. Cascade Locks, Oregon. to near Stevenson, Washington.