118°58′54″W / 47.95583°N 118.98167°W / 47.95583; -118.98167 Grand Coulee Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington...
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southwest from Grand Coulee Dam to Soap Lake, being bisected by Dry Falls into the Upper and Lower Grand Coulee. Grand Coulee is a large coulee on the Columbia...
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Central Washington, United States, is the irrigation network that the Grand Coulee Dam makes possible. It is the largest water reclamation project in the...
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"Grand Coulee Dam" is an American folk song recorded in 1941 by Woody Guthrie. He wrote it during a brief period when he was commissioned by the Bonneville...
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The laser light show at Grand Coulee Dam, which began in 1989, is one of the largest light shows in the U.S. The 37 minute show runs daily from Memorial...
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incorporated on November 6, 1935. It is located above the Grand Coulee Dam and next to North Dam. It was the birthplace of the molecular biologist John Abelson...
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census. Coulee Dam was founded by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in 1933, to serve as headquarters for the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam. The Okanogan...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake (category Reservoirs and dams in National Park Service areas)
River by the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state. It is named for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was president during the construction of the dam. Covering...
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Grand Coulee may refer to: Grand Coulee, an ancient river bed in Washington, United States Grand Coulee Dam, the largest hydroelectric generating facility...
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Quincy, Washington (section Grand Coulee Dam)
was named after Quincy, Illinois. The arrival of the water from the Grand Coulee Dam in 1952 changed the town.[citation needed] Quincy is located at 47°14′1″N...
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Grand Coulee Dam, is pumped into Grand Coulee, a formerly dry canyon, through the short Feeder Canal. Grand Coulee's north end is sealed by North Dam...
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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...
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of the Grand Coulee, a formerly dry coulee near the Columbia River, formed by the Missoula Floods during the Pleistocene epoch. Grand Coulee Dam, built...
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birds and other fauna natural to the area. Before the construction of Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River in 1941 and Moses Lake Army Air Base in 1942...
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dams are the same used for concrete and embankment dams. Gravity dams can be classified by plan (shape): Most gravity dams are straight (Grand Coulee...
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terms of the volume of concrete used in its construction, after the Grand Coulee Dam across the Columbia River, US. It is a part of the Narmada Valley Project...
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Kettle Falls (section Flooded by Grand Coulee Dam)
in 1940, as the waters of the reservoir Lake Roosevelt rose behind Grand Coulee Dam, permanently flooding the site. At least nine thousand years ago Paleo-Indian...
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Canada–United States border to Grand Coulee Dam: Northport Kettle Falls Inchelium Grand Coulee Coulee Dam Grand Coulee Dam to Wenatchee: Elmer City Bridgeport...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake between Grand Coulee Dam and Northport, Washington, in eastern Washington state. The Grand Coulee Dam was built on the Columbia River...
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Six Companies (category Hoover Dam)
to build the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in Nevada and Arizona. They later built Parker Dam, a portion of the Grand Coulee Dam, the Colorado River...
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source at Grand Coulee Dam. Electric City was established in 1934 as one of several settlements around the future site of the Grand Coulee Dam that aimed...
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The Grand Coulee Bridge, or Columbia River Bridge at Grand Coulee Dam, is a through-cantilever steel truss bridge built in 1934–35. It carries State Route...
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river's federal hydroelectric facilities (primarily Bonneville Dam and Grand Coulee Dam). At the time, the agency was facing a controversy because several...
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Columbia River (section Dams)
the Grand Coulee. After the floods, the river found its present course, and the Grand Coulee was left dry. The construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in...
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Adeline Fredin (section Grand Coulee Dam project)
allow for the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam Project. Timber was frequently harvested around the Grand Coulee Dam, classified as a storage reservoir...
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Long Lake Dam completely blocked salmon migrations to the upper portions of the Spokane River watershed, although much larger Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia...
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North Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam near the town of Grand Coulee in Grant County, Washington, United States. Construction of the dam began in 1946...
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Banks Lake, a man-made reservoir that stretches for 27 miles to Grand Coulee Dam. At Coulee City, water from the reservoir enters a system of irrigation...
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Torrington, Connecticut – with Hamilton Smith 1975 Grand Coulee Dam – Third Power Plant – Grand Coulee, WA – with Hamilton Smith 1976 Torin Corp - Manufacturing...
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Sinixt (section Grand Coulee Dam)
a delegation of the Confederated Tribes. Until the construction of Grand Coulee Dam, the Lower Sinixt continued to fish in their traditional manner at...
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