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Bonneville Dam |
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Bonneville Dam, one of the major dams on the Columbia River where it passes through the Cascade Mts., between Oregon and Wash. The dam, 2,690 ft (820 m) long and 197 ft (60 m) high, was built between 1933 and 1943 by the U.S. Corps of Engineers and was one of the largest hydroelectric projects undertaken under the New Deal New Deal, in U.S. history, term for the domestic reform program of the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt ; it was first used by Roosevelt in his speech accepting the Democratic party nomination for President in 1932. ..... Click the link for more information. . It is used for navigation, flood control, and power production. Locks permit ships to pass around the dam; fish ladders allow salmon to spawn upriver. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But these pernicious purloiners are pinnipeds--several dozen sea lions, which have discovered easy pickin's at the foot of the fish ladder that the salmon use to get around Bonneville Dam. Four days of community events in June launched the opening of the Lower Columbia River Water Trail, a 146-mile stretch of the Columbia River between Bonneville Dam in Oregon and the Pacific Ocean in Washington State. Workers load them on trucks or barges and motor them past Bonneville Dam, the last dam on the Columbia. |
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