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determine. The farms that receive irrigation water must pay for it, but due to insufficient data from the Bureau of Reclamation, it is not possible to compare the total cost paid by the Bureau to the payments received. Nevertheless, the farm payments account for only a small fraction of the total cost to the government, resulting in the project's agricultural corporations receiving a large water subsidy from the government. Critics describe the CBP as a classical example of federal money being used to subsidize a relatively small group of farmers in the American West in places where it would never be economically viable under other circumstances.
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site, for example, indicate that a "fish ladder might have to be 5 miles (8.0 km) long to get the fish up the 550 feet (170 m) needed, and many fish would die before reaching the upper end" thus no fish ladders were built. Advocates of remedial measures point out that such steps would still be better than the status quo, which has led to marked die-offs and the likely extinction of several types of salmon.
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addition to the physical barriers the dams pose, the slowing speed and altered course of the river raises temperatures, alters oxygen content, and changes river bed conditions. These altered conditions can stress and potentially kill both migratory and local non-migratory organisms in the river. The decimation of these migratory fish stocks above Grand Coulee Dam would not allow the former fishing lifestyle of
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annual flows of the nearby Yakima, Wenatchee, and Okanogan rivers. There were plans to double the area of irrigated land, according to tour guides at the dam, over the next several decades. However, the Bureau of Reclamation website states that no further development is anticipated, with 671,000 acres (2,720 km) irrigated out of the original 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km) planned.
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recovered, and that the benefits of the project were unevenly distributed and increasingly going to larger businesses and corporations. These issues and others dampened enthusiasm for the project, although the exact motives behind the decision to stop construction with the project about half finished are not known.
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There are a number of issues regarding the runoff of irrigation water. The project region receives about 6 to 10 inches (250 mm) of annual rainfall, while the application of irrigation water amounts to an equivalent 40 to 50 inches (1,300 mm). The original plans did not sufficiently address
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The environmental impacts of the Columbia Basin Project have made it a contentious and often politicized issue. A common argument for not implementing environmental safeguards at dam sites is that post-construction modifications would likely have to be significant. Tour guides at the Grand Coulee dam
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After World War II the project suffered a number of setbacks. Irrigation water began to arrive between 1948 and 1952, but the costs escalated, resulting in the original plan, in which the people receiving irrigation water would pay back the costs of the project over time, being repeatedly revised and
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is carried over 331 miles (533 km) of main canals, stored in a number of reservoirs, then fed into 1,339 miles (2,155 km) of lateral irrigation canals, and out into 3,500 miles (5,600 km) of drains and wasteways. The Grand Coulee Dam, powerplant, and various other parts of the CBP are
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was built just south of the project and aluminum smelting plants flocked to the Columbia Basin. A new power house was built at the Grand Coulee Dam, starting in the late sixties, that tripled the generating capacity. Part of the dam had to be blown up and re-built to make way for the new generators.
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makes possible. It is the largest water reclamation project in the United States, supplying irrigation water to over 670,000 acres (2,700 km) of the 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km) large project area, all of which was originally intended to be supplied and is still classified irrigable and open
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The total amount of the Columbia flow that is diverted into the CBP at Grand Coulee varies a little from year to year, and is currently about 3.0 million acre-feet. This is about 3.8 percent of the Columbia's average flow as measured at the Grand Coulee dam. This amount is larger than the combined
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The determination to finish the project's plan to irrigate the full 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km) waned during the 1960s. The estimated total cost for completing the project had more than doubled between 1940 and 1964, it had become clear that the government's financial investment would not be
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One environmental impact has been the reduction in native fish stocks above the dams. The majority of fish in the Columbia basin are migratory fish like salmon, sturgeon and steelhead. These migratory fish are often harmed or unable to pass through the narrow passages and turbines at dams. In
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According to the federal Bureau of Reclamation the yearly value of the Columbia Basin Project is $ 630 million in irrigated crops, $ 950 million in power production, $ 20 million in flood damage prevention, and $ 50 million in recreation. The project itself involves costs that are difficult to
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When it was built, Grand Coulee Dam was the largest dam in the world, but it was only part of the irrigation project. Additional dams were built at the north and south ends of Grand Coulee, the dry canyon south of Grand Coulee Dam, allowing the coulee to be filled with water pumped up from the
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The irrigation water provided by this project greatly benefits the agricultural production of the area. North Central Washington is one of the largest and most productive tree fruit producing areas on the planet. Without Coulee Dam and the greater Columbia Basin Project, much of North Central
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Feeder Canal (1951) links North Dam at northern end of Banks Lake with the siphon outlets for the Grand Coulee Pumping—Generating plants discharge lines. It is 1.6 miles (2.6 km) long running in an open concrete-lined canal, and a twin-barrel concrete cut—and-cover
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becoming a permanent water subsidy. In addition, the original vision of a social engineering project intended to help farmers settle on small landholdings failed. Farm plots, at first restricted in size, became larger and soon became corporate agribusiness operations.
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Draft Environmental Statement, Columbia Basin Project, Washington; Columbia Basin Project, Ephrata, Washington; Department of the Interior, (INT DES-75-3), Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Washington, D.C.;
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Interest in completing the Columbia Basin Project's 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km) has grown in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. One reason for the renewed interest is the substantial depletion of the
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the inevitable seepage and runoff. In some cases the results are beneficial. For example, numerous new lakes provide recreation opportunities and habitat for fish and game. In other cases
1348: 452:– zoned earth & rockfill) (1951) aka (Long Lake Dam) is at the south end of Long Lake Coulee. The reservoir is 6 miles (9.7 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.80 km) wide. 473:, and reservoirs were built south of Bank Lake, reaching over 100 miles (160 km). Water is lifted 280 feet (85 m) from Lake Roosevelt to feed the massive network. 485:. Agricultural operations within the CBP's boundaries but outside the developed portion have for decades used groundwater pumped from the Odessa aquifer to irrigate crops. 422:. It is near the east abutment of Dry Falls Dam. Banks Lake serves as an equalizing reservoir for storage of water for irrigation and can be used to for power generation. 222: 1368: 226: 394:. It is 27 miles (43 km) long and 1 to 3 miles (1.6 to 4.8 km) wide. The coulee has nearly vertical rock walls up to 600 feet (180 m) high. 1247: 692: 229:
of 1939.) Construction of Grand Coulee Dam began in 1933 and was completed in 1942. Its main purpose of pumping water for irrigation was postponed during
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Third Powerhouse (1974) was added as a north wing of the dam from the original Right powerhouse. This addition expanded power generation by 300%.
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Bacon Tunnel and Siphon (1950) is a 1,037.5 feet (316.2 m) long sealed Siphon under the eastern extension of the Dry Falls draw.
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Photographs of the construction of the Columbia Basin Project, with a special emphasis on the construction of Grand Coulee Dam.
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thwarted the goal of both agencies of settling the project area with small family farms; larger corporate farms arose instead.
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Roise, Charlene (16 September 2014). "Powerhouse: Marcel Breuer at Grand Coulee". docomomo-us. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
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epoch. These flood basalts are exposed in some places, while in others they are covered with thick layers of loess.
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group (further south) wanted a large dam on the Columbia River, which would pump water up to fill the nearby
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Main Canal (1951) is 8.3 miles (13.4 km), including 2.4 miles (3.9 km) of lake sections.
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would manage the entire system. Instead, conflicts between the Bureau of Reclamation and the
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Official explanation of Salmon Recovery and Salmon Death-minimizing activities required
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in Central Washington is fertile due to its loess soils, but large portions are a near
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in honor of the president. The irrigation holding reservoir in Grand Coulee was named
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in favor of electrical power generation that was used for the war effort. Additional
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https://web.archive.org/web/20141003030357/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp
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was created in 1902 to aid development of dry western states. Central Washington's
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for the possible enlargement of the system. Water pumped from the
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generating capacity was added into the 1970s. The Columbia River
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of the area, who once depended on the salmon for a way of life.
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group wanted a 134 miles (216 km) gravity flow canal from
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Competing groups lobbied for different irrigation projects; a
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Electricity is now transmitted to Canada and as far south as
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The original plan was that a federal agency similar to the
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the demand for electricity in the region boomed. The
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money. (It was later specifically authorized by the
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Steamboats of the upper Columbia and Kootenay Rivers
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Washington State would be too arid for cultivation.
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was not the primary goal of the project, but during
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