Word: chelan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NORTHWEST POWER partnership will get big boost this fall with start of $200 million Rocky Reach Dam on Columbia River. Last obstacle was removed when Puget Sound Power & Light Co. agreed to sell its share of another Columbia River plant to Chelan County Public Utility District in return for half of power from new Rocky Reach Dam. FPC has given Chelan County PUD license to start building 630,000-kw. project as soon as possible...
Actually, the P.U.D.s had already drawn up some plans for similar partnership power projects. At Rocky Reach on the Columbia, Washington's Chelan County P.U.D. hopes to build a nine-unit $234,340,000 dam that will produce 600,000 kw. of power. The Grant County P.U.D. has already asked Congress to authorize an even bigger project: an estimated $400 million dam at the Columbia's Priest Rapids that will produce...