Exploring the Evergreen State, Part VI
This spillway is 1,650 feet wide.
Do people still include hydroelectric projects on their grand tours of the American West? They sure used to! This week, our tour of Washington brings us to that state's famous engineering marvel.
GRAND COULEE DAM
At [unintelligible] may be seen the world's largest pumping [unintelligible] which elevates water 280 feet through ten giant flumes into the world's largest irrigation canal, feeding the water to the storage and balancing reservoir in the Grand Coulee. The water is then conducted through syphons and canals for a 10 million acres of semi-arid land in the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project.
All these figures astound me. We had lunch overlooking the spillway. Most interesting.
Love "Doc"
GRAND COULEE DAM
Lake Roosevelt behind Dam.
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GRAND COULEE DAM, WASHINGTON
The view from the shore of the Mighty Columbia River displays the huge spillways of the world's largest concrete dam. This spillway is 1,650 feet wide. This dam has created Roosevelt Lake which is 151 miles long and extends into Canada.
Still headed West.
Mac
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