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Alcova Reservoir and its surrounding lands provide excellent water oriented recreational facilities and is the primary recreation area for Casper and the surrounding region. Sailboating and water skiing in summer and ice fishing in winter attract many visitors…
By Scott Learn The Oregonian DETROIT DAM – If you don’t like heights, this dam’s walkways are not for you, with winds that make you wobble and a 469-foot concrete-lined drop downriver. Detroit, like the other dams wedged…
By Staff Herald and News One of the Klamath Basin’s largest irrigation districts is one step closer to building a hydroelectric generation facility on a canal in the Klamath Reclamation Project. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has determined…
By Scott Learn The Oregonian Dam removal picks up steam in the Northwest this fall with the removal of two dams on the Olympic Peninsula’s Elwha River and the Condit Dam in the Columbia River Gorge. Activists are…
By Tim Fought, Associated Press The Columbian PORTLAND — A big spring rise in the Columbia River basin has finally washed out to sea, meaning that turbines in the region’s wind farms are back at full output. While…
By Scott Learn The Oregonian Federal Judge James A. Redden’s potential swan song hearing on the Northwest’s highest-profile salmon case Monday was short but not particularly sweet. Redden, 82, has presided over the U.S. District Court case since…
By Scott Learn The Oregonian CHINOOK, Wash. — This winter, restoration workers punched a 12-foot concrete culvert through the rock rip-rap that lines the Columbia River near the ocean and waited for fish to hit wetlands walled off…
Hills Creek Dam is an earthfill structure with a gated concrete spillway and outlet works for regulating lake levels. The dam was completed in 1961 at a cost of $46 million. In coordination with Lookout Point and Fall…