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Website. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - 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 ...
Horn Rapids Dam. / 46.37861°N 119.41694°W / 46.37861; -119.41694. Horn Rapids Dam (also known as Wanawish Dam) is a concrete barrage dam on the Yakima River in Benton County, Washington near the intersection of SR 240 and SR 225. The dam is not used for hydroelectric production, rather to fill irrigation canals on either bank of the ...
Another ongoing project will continue, the upgrades to turbines and generators at Priest Rapids Dam. The upgrades at Priest Rapids began in 2016; each of the 10 generator-turbine combinations ...
The Jesuit priest Pierre-Jean De Smet visited the area in 1841 and found native people catching up to 3,000 fish a day. The Jesuits established St. Paul's Mission at the falls in 1845. The original town of Kettle Falls was established in 1891 by speculators from Spokane. They built a large hotel on the river overlooking the falls and envisioned ...
Sep. 29—PRIEST RAPIDS DAM — Children and adults will get a look at the history and culture of the Wanapum and Columbia Plateau people at Archeology Days on Oct. 3 and 4 at the Wanapum Heritage ...
Celilo Canal was a canal in Oregon connecting two points of the Columbia River, just east of The Dalles . In the natural state of the Columbia River, there was an 8-mile (13 km) stretch from The Dalles to Celilo Falls that was impassable upstream and navigable downstream only at high water and at great risk. Celilo Canal was built in the early ...
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).
Otter Rapids Generating Station. / 50.18361°N 81.63611°W / 50.18361; -81.63611. Otter Rapids Generating Station is a dam and hydroelectric power plant located in Pitt Township [2] in the Unorganized North Part of Cochrane District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. [3] Owned by Ontario Power Generation, this 4-unit, 182 MW station is ...