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Approximately 87 percent of dams in Washington are earth fill dams, with the second most-common type being concrete gravity dams (6%). Only 113 dams in the state are taller than 50 feet (15 m). King County has 123 dams—the most of any county in the state. [1] The majority of dams were built between 1960 and 1999. [1]
Long Lake Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Spokane River, between Lincoln County and Stevens County about 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Spokane in eastern Washington.It forms Long Lake (Washington), a 23.5 mi (37.8 km) long reservoir, and has a hydroelectric generating capacity of 71 megawatts. [1]
Washington was named after President George Washington by an act of the United States Congress during the creation of Washington Territory in 1853; the territory was to be named "Columbia", for the Columbia River and the Columbia District, but Kentucky representative Richard H. Stanton found the name too similar to the District of Columbia (the national capital, itself containing the city of ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in Washington State designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to ...
State Route 27 (SR 27) is a 90-mile-long (145 km) state highway serving Whitman and Spokane counties, located in the eastern region of the U.S. state of Washington. The highway travels generally north from U.S. Route 195 (US 195) through Pullman , Palouse , Tekoa , and Spokane Valley to SR 290 north of an interchange with Interstate 90 (I-90).
The Little Falls Hydroelectric Power Plant, on the Spokane River near Reardan, Washington, about 30 miles (48 km) west of Spokane was built during 1907–10. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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A view of the substation from the Monroe Street Bridge. The Post Street Electric Substation was designed by Kirtland K. Cutter for the Washington Water Power Company [3] and constructed in 1910 to serve as a low-tension distributing and converting station and as Washington Water Power's primary substation in Spokane. [2]