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... operation and maintenance of dams, power plants, and canals, including Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River, Shasta Dam on the Sacramento River and Folsom Dam on the American River. For more information visit: ... Comment?
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... when they do. But I'd rather have a few less dams and few more wild rivers, if that's understandable. The Grand Coulee Dam, for example, provides vast amounts of clean electricity, but it destroyed the salmon runs further upstream because it lacks a ... Comment?
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Depression impressions 0 minutes ago
New MAC exhibit offers a glimpse of our regiona TMs brief Golden Age of art, and how it came to be during The Great Depression Jim Kershner The Spokesman-Review Among the works by Spokane's Z. Vanessa Helder on display at the MAC are, from top, "Jackhammer Crew," "Grand Coulee Dam Looking West" and "Sunday Morning in Grand Coulee," all circa 1939. Comment?
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Kaiser, Garfield, and Permanente
Henry J. Kaiser developed an extensive and complex industrial empire. During the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, he began an association with Sidney Garfield, MD, that resulted in the prototype of the modern health maintenance organization. Comment?
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... for public construction projects exclusively to unionized firms, have been around for decades. The Grand Coulee Dam was built using a project labor agreement back in the 1930s. But they have outlived their usefulness in New Jersey, where they have ... Comment?
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Nov. 11: Veterans Day runs until 6 p.m. in Coulee Dam
A Veterans Day event runs until 6 p.m. today, Nov. 11, at Coulee Dam City Hall. Arnie Holt will have his Nativeteran Vietnam Memorial display set up. Comment?
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Overview of the Water-Energy Nexus in the U.S. Go 18025 Updated September 2009 Introduction State legislatures and natural resource managers have traditionally addressed water and energy as two separate issues. Comment?
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... of its own. Don's father, Frank, learned the ropes as a power company lineman in Nebraska. The massive Grand Coulee Dam project lured him to eastern Washington in 1941. Within a year, he went from installing high voltage lines to working at the ... Comment?
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Hotel fit for an inland empire
... carried him over the Atlantic. Franklin Roosevelt occupied the presidential suite when he came to open the Grand Coulee Dam. Contracts for nuclear reactors that supplied enriched uranium for the Second World War Manhattan project were signed here. ... Comment?
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Dam tourism: Nation's highest-wattage hydroelectric wonders are in Washington
... has some of the world's biggest and most easily reachable dams strung along the Columbia River. The vast Grand Coulee Dam straddles the river in north-central Washington. Two other dams, Chief Joseph and Rocky Reach, are close enough that it's easy ... Comment?
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Starbucks, Hendrix ... the list goes on
... in 1790. Starbucks. The only liquid better known is rain, Nicandri writes. A concrete core sample from Grand Coulee Dam. This public works project epitomized the "can-do" ethos of America in the middle of the 20th century. Concrete remnant from ... Comment?
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... St Francis, Kansas. Mr. Marsh worked as a heavy equipment operator for Morrison-Knutson helping build the Grand Coulee Dam and later in life with Larimer County. He served in the Navy during WWII on the U.S.S. Saratoga in the Pacific. He loved to ... Comment?
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In brief: Police say men aided robbery
... was discovered last week. Martha S. had a pinhole leak in the hull and was moved to a dry dock facility at Grand Coulee Dam for repairs. A section of the hull was removed and a new steel plate was welded into place. The cost of the repair was less ... Comment?
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Keller Ferry leak plugged, service resumes
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... to return to service. The Martha S. began service on the Columbia River in 1948. The boat operates west of Grand Coulee Dam for 18 hours per day, making the two-mile crossing in about 15 minutes. Create A Screen Name Screen names can only consist of ... Comment?
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Keller Ferry returns to service after leak repaired October 19, 2009
... was discovered last week. Martha S. had a pinhole leak in the hull and was moved to a dry dock facility at Grand Coulee Dam for repairs. A section of the hull was removed and a new steel plate was welded into place. The cost of the repair was less ... Comment?
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Tim Jacobsen: Local ownership of electric utility makes sense
... and control their own electric utility. The Northwest has had a public power heritage since the building of Grand Coulee Dam in the 1930s. Under federal law, we could form a public power utility that would have a preferential right to buy low-cost ... Comment?
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Hanford photos: Turning up a face from the past
... member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. He used to joke he had wired everything from Grand Coulee Dam in the late 1930s to tribal teepees in northeastern Montana in the mid-1950s. He was at Hanford from about 1943-46, after ... Comment?
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Frog Hospital: How to Treat the Man in Your Life
... public option. It might work. Who Paid the Taxes that Built the West. Look at Bonneville Dam and the Grand Coulee Dam that have provide cheap electricity and abundant water for agriculture to the Pacific Northwest. Built with federal dollars. Paid ... Comment?
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Oct. 9: Keller Ferry service is suspended
... benefit all users - for education, health care, commercial and tourism purposes.' The Martha S. was built at Coulee Dam and launched on Lake Roosevelt, bound for the Keller Ferry crossing, on Sept. 9, 1948. The vessel, which operates 18 hours a day, ... Comment?
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RTI Data Distribution Service Selected for Upgrade of Grand Coulee Dam's Control System
... Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, enabling more efficient and reliable hydroelectric power generation. The Grand Coulee Dam is the largest hydropower plant in the United States. The plant must carefully control how it supplies power to the grid. ... Comment?
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