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  2. Bonneville Dam - Wikipedia

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    Bonneville Lock and Dam / ˈbɒnəvɪl / consists of several run-of-the-river dam structures that together complete a span of the Columbia River between the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington at River Mile 146.1. [6] The dam is located 40 miles (64 km) east of Portland, Oregon, in the Columbia River Gorge.

  3. Bonneville, Oregon - Wikipedia

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    Bonneville, Oregon. /  45.63583°N 121.95194°W  / 45.63583; -121.95194. Bonneville is an unincorporated community in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States, on Interstate 84 and the Columbia River. Bonneville is best known as the site of Bonneville Dam. North Bonneville, Washington is across the river. For decades before the dam was ...

  4. Bridge of the Gods (land bridge) - Wikipedia

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    Bridge of the Gods (land bridge) Coordinates: 45.6589°N 121.9162°W. The Bridge of the Gods was a natural dam created by the Bonneville Slide, a major landslide that dammed the Columbia River near present-day Cascade Locks, Oregon in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The river eventually breached the bridge and washed much of it away ...

  5. Bonneville Power Administration - Wikipedia

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    The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is an American federal agency operating in the Pacific Northwest. BPA was created by an act of Congress in 1937 to market electric power from the Bonneville Dam located on the Columbia River and to construct facilities necessary to transmit that power.

  6. The Dalles Dam - Wikipedia

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    6,180 GWh [1] The Dalles Lock and Dam is a concrete-gravity run-of-the-river dam spanning the Columbia River, two miles (3 km) east of the city of The Dalles, Oregon, United States. [2] It joins Wasco County, Oregon with Klickitat County, Washington, 192 miles (309 km) upriver from the mouth of the Columbia near Astoria, Oregon.

  7. Celilo Converter Station - Wikipedia

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    Celilo Converter Station. Coordinates: 45.5938°N 121.1125°W. The Celilo Converter Station in 2009. The Celilo Converter Station in 1989. The Celilo Converter Station, built in 1970 and owned and operated by the Bonneville Power Administration, is the northern terminus of the Pacific DC Intertie, near The Dalles, Oregon, in the United States .

  8. Portland District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Wikipedia

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    The Portland District is one of the five districts within the Northwestern Division of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The Portland District is made up of some 1,100 civilian and 6 military personnel. For almost 140 years, the people of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Portland District have played an important role in the region.

  9. List of crossings of the Columbia River - Wikipedia

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    Lake Bonneville at Bonneville, Oregon and North Bonneville, Washington ... John Day Dam: 215.6 Lake Umatilla Umatilla Bridge: 290.3 I-82 / US ...