Download or read book Multipurpose Dams of the Pacific Northwest written by United States. Bonneville Power Administration and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multipurpose Dams of the Pacific Northwest written by United States. Bonneville Power Administration and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multi Purpose Dams of the Pacific Northwest written by and published by . This book was released on 1976* with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multipurpose Dams of the Pacific Northwest written by United States. Bonneville Power Administration and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multi purpose Dams of the Pacific Northwest written by Bonneville Power Administration and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multi Purpose Dams of the Pacific Northwest written by and published by . This book was released on 1976* with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Power Lines written by Russell McCormmach and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Columbia River and its tributaries hold the greatest hydroelectric power potential of any river system in America. The systematic development of the potential began with a survey of the Columbia River Basin by the US Army Corps of Engineers. Its subsequent report to Congress in 1931 recommended construction of a system of multipurpose dams of unprecedented size, difficulty, and expense. During the Great Depression, as part of President Roosevelt's efforts to remove men from relief roles, the federal government undertook to build two dams on the Columbia River following the Corp's master plan. They were completed in time to aid to the production of weaponry in World War II. Through the postwar economic boom, the government built more dams, distributing giant blocks of power to industry in a region whose economy until then had been mainly extractive. With a focus on the Pacific Northwest, this book treats of federal power in the dam-building era in America. The legacy of that era is conflicted. The hydroelectric development of the Columbia River Basin is incontrovertibly both one of the great technological achievements of the twentieth century and a massive incursion into nature. In keeping, this book discusses the development both from the side of engineering, the source of problems in the dam-building era, and from the side of nature, the source of problems in the era that succeeded it, the environmental. The Columbia River Basin is home to the country's greatest salmon runs, and dams have threatened their survival, even as nowhere else has so much effort and expense been directed to preserving them. Problems of power and of the environment have an urgency in today's world, and measures that address them are often contradictory. This book considers the measures and the place of hydroelectricity among alternative sources of energy."--from publisher
Download or read book Hydroelectric Dams in the Pacific Northwest written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grand Coulee Dam written by Ray Bottenberg and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington's Grand Coulee is an ice-age channel that carried the Columbia River when ice dammed its main course. Grand Coulee was long recognized as an ideal place to store Columbia River water to irrigate the arid but fertile Columbia Basin. A dam was proposed as early as 1903, but opposition by Spokane private power interests and the cost of the dam delayed design and construction until the administration of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt, a public power advocate, used the Grand Coulee Dam project to help put the unemployed to work. The result was the world's largest man-made structure, and also the world's largest power plant, costing more than $163 million and the lives of at least 72 workers. The dam powered production of aluminum, atomic weapons, shipbuilding, and much more, contributing mightily to America's victory in World War II. Postwar developments provided irrigation for 700,000 acres of farmland.
Download or read book Multipurpose Dams of the Greater Columbia Basin written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Northwestern Division and published by . This book was released on with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dams Dynamos and Development written by Toni Rae Linenberger and published by Reclamation Bureau. This book was released on 2002 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the history of the Bureau of Reclamation's hydropower program in the Western United States.
Download or read book The Miracle of Water written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comprehensive Facility Review for Unity Dam written by Danley, Chris and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Safety of Dams written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Pacific Northwest Region and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dam Removal in the Pacific Northwest written by Michael C. Blumm and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past dozen years, a number of large dams in the Pacific Northwest have been removed in an effort to restore riverine ecosystems and dependent species like salmon. These dam removals provide perhaps the best example of large-scale environmental remediation in the 21st century. This restoration, however, has occurred on a case-by-case basis, without a comprehensive plan. Yet the result has been to put into motion ongoing rehabilitation efforts in four distinct river basins: the Elwah and White Salmon in Washington and the Sandy and Rogue in Oregon. In all, nine significant dams have been removed, and four more -- in the contentious Klamath Basin of Oregon and California -- are slated for removal in within the next decade. This article surveys both the successful and proposed removals in to draw lessons both within and beyond the Pacific Northwest. We identify a number of factors that determine both the speed and success of dam removal efforts, including the availability of the federal licensing process under the Federal Power Act, the existence and organization of local opposition, the amount and sources of funding, and the support of federal and state resource agencies and well-positioned members of Congress. These factors suggest that the promised removal of the Klamath Dams as well as calls for removing the federal dams on the Lower Snake face significant odds.
Download or read book Information Regarding Keechelus Storage Dam for Pacific Northwest Society of Engineers written by United States Reclamation Service and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SEED Safety Evaluation of Existing Dams Report Conconully Dam Okanogan Project Washington Pacific Northwest Region written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
