The Columbia Basin Project (or CBP) in Central Washington, USA, is the irrigation network that the Grand Coulee Dam makes possible. It is the largest water reclamation project in the United States, supplying irrigation water to over 670,000 acres (2,700km2) of the 1,100,000 acres (4,500km2) large project area, all of which was originally intended to be supplied and is still classified as irrigable and open for the possible enlargement of the system. Water pumped from the Columbia River is carried over 331 miles (533km) of main canals, stored in a number of reservoirs, then fed into 1,339 miles (2,155km) of lateral irrigation canals, and out into 3,500 miles (5,600km) of drains and wasteways.
Competing groups lobbied for different irrigation projects; a Spokane group wanted a 134 miles (216km) gravity flow canal from Lake Pend Oreille while a Wenatchee group (further south) wanted a large dam on the Columbia River, which would pump water up to fill the nearby Grand Coulee, a formerly-dry canyon-like coulee.
From 2015: Nick Zentner & Tom Foster collaboration featuring stunning Foster photos and Zentner script. Columbia River Gorge geology.
published: 22 May 2023
Rockhounding Washington Columbia Basin Agates
So I went out looking for Columbia Basin Agates, but I came up empty-handed. However, I do show some good examples at the end of the video.
At this location (GPS down below) you can find a ton of tumbler material, but the prize is a CBA that is big and with good banding. I struck out today, but I walked away with some interesting rocks for the saw, and I met a few other people hounding on my way out.
Location & GPS Information:
https://currentlyrockhounding.com/fir-road/
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published: 05 Aug 2019
Columbia River Basin
published: 19 Jul 2017
Columbia Basin Treaty History
published: 25 Mar 2010
Columbia Basin Project
published: 07 Apr 2014
River Highway - Journey down the Snake and Columbia River Navigation System
Follow the grain shipments of the Palouse down the Snake and Columbia Rivers in this amazing three-day time lapse.
published: 30 Jun 2018
Power and Water in the Columbia River Basin
Description
published: 19 Jul 2018
The Grand Coulee Dam and Columbia Basin Irrigation Project | Washington Grown
The Grand Coulee Dam is the biggest hydroelectric dam in North America, and it's an integral part of Washington agriculture! It supplies all of the irrigation for over half of the state. Learn more from the Bureau of Reclamation about how the dam helps our farmers.
For more information:
⇨ Bureau of Reclamation | https://usbr.gov/pn/grandcoulee/
⇨ National Park Service | https://nps.gov/articles/washington-grand-coulee-dam.htm
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published: 29 Jun 2022
Windy conditions whip Columbia Basin
Blowing dust whipped across the Columbia Basin and other parts of Eastern Washington last night and this morning. Washington Department of Ecology officials say the next two days should bring a mixed bag of smoke, dust and clearing.
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So I went out looking for Columbia Basin Agates, but I came up empty-handed. However, I do show some good examples at the end of the video.
At this location (G...
So I went out looking for Columbia Basin Agates, but I came up empty-handed. However, I do show some good examples at the end of the video.
At this location (GPS down below) you can find a ton of tumbler material, but the prize is a CBA that is big and with good banding. I struck out today, but I walked away with some interesting rocks for the saw, and I met a few other people hounding on my way out.
Location & GPS Information:
https://currentlyrockhounding.com/fir-road/
Thanks for watching!
#Rockhounding #CurrentlyRockhounding #Agates
So I went out looking for Columbia Basin Agates, but I came up empty-handed. However, I do show some good examples at the end of the video.
At this location (GPS down below) you can find a ton of tumbler material, but the prize is a CBA that is big and with good banding. I struck out today, but I walked away with some interesting rocks for the saw, and I met a few other people hounding on my way out.
Location & GPS Information:
https://currentlyrockhounding.com/fir-road/
Thanks for watching!
#Rockhounding #CurrentlyRockhounding #Agates
The Grand Coulee Dam is the biggest hydroelectric dam in North America, and it's an integral part of Washington agriculture! It supplies all of the irrigation f...
The Grand Coulee Dam is the biggest hydroelectric dam in North America, and it's an integral part of Washington agriculture! It supplies all of the irrigation for over half of the state. Learn more from the Bureau of Reclamation about how the dam helps our farmers.
For more information:
⇨ Bureau of Reclamation | https://usbr.gov/pn/grandcoulee/
⇨ National Park Service | https://nps.gov/articles/washington-grand-coulee-dam.htm
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The Grand Coulee Dam is the biggest hydroelectric dam in North America, and it's an integral part of Washington agriculture! It supplies all of the irrigation for over half of the state. Learn more from the Bureau of Reclamation about how the dam helps our farmers.
For more information:
⇨ Bureau of Reclamation | https://usbr.gov/pn/grandcoulee/
⇨ National Park Service | https://nps.gov/articles/washington-grand-coulee-dam.htm
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Blowing dust whipped across the Columbia Basin and other parts of Eastern Washington last night and this morning. Washington Department of Ecology officials say...
Blowing dust whipped across the Columbia Basin and other parts of Eastern Washington last night and this morning. Washington Department of Ecology officials say the next two days should bring a mixed bag of smoke, dust and clearing.
iFIBER One News is a division of iFIBER Communications in Ephrata, Wash. -- home of the fastest Internet in the state of Washington. Copyright 2012 iFIBER Communications.
Blowing dust whipped across the Columbia Basin and other parts of Eastern Washington last night and this morning. Washington Department of Ecology officials say the next two days should bring a mixed bag of smoke, dust and clearing.
iFIBER One News is a division of iFIBER Communications in Ephrata, Wash. -- home of the fastest Internet in the state of Washington. Copyright 2012 iFIBER Communications.
So I went out looking for Columbia Basin Agates, but I came up empty-handed. However, I do show some good examples at the end of the video.
At this location (GPS down below) you can find a ton of tumbler material, but the prize is a CBA that is big and with good banding. I struck out today, but I walked away with some interesting rocks for the saw, and I met a few other people hounding on my way out.
Location & GPS Information:
https://currentlyrockhounding.com/fir-road/
Thanks for watching!
#Rockhounding #CurrentlyRockhounding #Agates
The Grand Coulee Dam is the biggest hydroelectric dam in North America, and it's an integral part of Washington agriculture! It supplies all of the irrigation for over half of the state. Learn more from the Bureau of Reclamation about how the dam helps our farmers.
For more information:
⇨ Bureau of Reclamation | https://usbr.gov/pn/grandcoulee/
⇨ National Park Service | https://nps.gov/articles/washington-grand-coulee-dam.htm
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Blowing dust whipped across the Columbia Basin and other parts of Eastern Washington last night and this morning. Washington Department of Ecology officials say the next two days should bring a mixed bag of smoke, dust and clearing.
iFIBER One News is a division of iFIBER Communications in Ephrata, Wash. -- home of the fastest Internet in the state of Washington. Copyright 2012 iFIBER Communications.
– The EastColumbiaBasinIrrigationDistrict was joined by landowners, key partners and elected officials for a groundbreaking ceremony on the EL 86.4 system Monday, according to a Tuesday announcement from the ECBID.
OTHELLO — The EastColumbiaBasinIrrigationDistrict was joined by landowners, key partners and elected officials for a groundbreaking ceremony on the EL 86.4 system Monday, according to a Tuesday announcement from the ECBID.
This large family farm is 9 miles east of Moses Lake, Wash., on the eastern side of the ColumbiaBasinIrrigation project. The entire farm is irrigated with water from the Columbia River and from the Odessa Aquifer ... kAm~? E92E A2CE @7 E96 72C>k^Am.
They were supposed to be a temporary solution until the rest of the ColumbiaBasinProject was completed, said local irrigation consultant Dan Haller, adding that the rise of environmental regulations during the 1970s stalled development.
Harding...LewisHart said ... Hart was probably referring to the intense lobbying that state officials had done to promote the ColumbiaBasin irrigation project. Harding, during his visit to Spokane, came down firmly in favor of funding the massive project.
In Harding’s speech at the SpokaneArmory, he gave a ringing endorsement of the proposed ColumbiaBasin irrigation project. “The Columbia River basin alone, under the program of development on which ...
... It would include a reception at the Davenport Hotel and an “illustrated address” (for his benefit) about the ColumbiaBasin irrigation project, followed by a presidential speech at the SpokaneArmory.
All of the talk about a gigantic ColumbiaBasin irrigation project was causing a predictable problem ... This had become so widespread that the Columbia Basin IrrigationLeague launched a committee to explore ways to discourage speculation.