Month: February 2011
McNary: Columbia River, OR/WA
McNary Dam is a 1.4-mile (2.2-km) long concrete gravity run-of-the-river dam which spans the Columbia River. It joins Umatilla County, Oregon with Benton County, Washington, 292 miles (470 km) upriver from the mouth of the Columbia at Astoria, Oregon.
Mayfield: Cowlitz River, WA
Located 65 miles south of Tacoma, Washington, Mayfield Dam is part of the two-dam Cowlitz Hydroelectric Project. Construction began in 1955 and power generation began in 1963.