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Interest in completing the Columbia Basin Project's 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km 2) has grown in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. One reason for the renewed interest is the substantial depletion of the Odessa aquifer .
Dams of the Columbia River Basin. Click to view higher resolution and read legend. Hydroelectric generators in the basin sized by capacity. 17 dams on the British Columbia side of Canada-US border not shown. There are more than 60 dams in the Columbia River watershed in the United States and Canada. Tributaries of the Columbia River and their ...
A map of the Columbia Basin Project. Green denotes land irrigated by the project. ... Hydroelectric generators at Grand ... The Columbia Basin Project has affected ...
Dec. 5—CASHMERE — The Columbia Basin Project is making gradual progress toward completion with significant accomplishments for the Odessa Groundwater Replacement Program and other milestones ...
The Quincy-Columbia Basin Irrigation District (QCBID) is one of three independent non-profit quasi-municipalities founded under Washington state law that hold a contract with the United States Bureau of Reclamation, a division of the United States Department of Interior, to operate and maintain a portion of the Columbia Basin Project.
The book's arrival comes as the United States and Canada are renegotiating the Columbia River Treaty, a 60-year-old agreement that guides management of the river and its hydroelectric dams.
One of its major undertakings was building Grand Coulee Dam to provide irrigation for the 600 thousand acres (2,400 km 2) of the Columbia Basin Project in central Washington. [120] With the onset of World War II, the focus of dam construction shifted to production of hydroelectricity. Irrigation efforts resumed after the war.
The formation of a new federal task force focused on salmon in the Columbia River system has been met with concern by supporters of the Snake River hydroelectric dams in Eastern Washington.