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  2. Bonneville Dam - Wikipedia

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    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. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Chief Joseph Dam - Wikipedia

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    Chief Joseph Dam. 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 ...

  6. Columbia River - Wikipedia

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    Chief Joseph Dam has no fish ladders and completely blocks fish migration to the upper half of the Columbia River system. [ 137 ] In 2019, both the Yakama and Lummi Northwest Nations proposed to remove the Bonneville, John Day, and The Dalles dams due to their belief removal would strengthen salmon population. [ 138 ]

  7. List of tributaries of the Columbia River - Wikipedia

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    Bonneville Dam to McNary Dam. Wind: 48 580 34.2 Little White Salmon: 31 350 White Salmon: 71.3 1,000 30.4 Hood: 40 720 27.6 Klickitat: 154.3 3,496 44.5 Fifteenmile Creek: 87 970 5.6 Deschutes: 406 27,549.6 215.7 John Day: 457 20,521.3 80.4 Willow Creek: 127 2,300 0.9 Umatilla: 143 6,345 14 Upper Columbia. McNary Dam to Columbia Lake. Walla ...

  8. Bonneville, Oregon - Wikipedia

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    1138422 [1] 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 ...

  9. 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 ...