Word: cobscook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quoddy's tides can be economically tamed. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall's plan-modeled on Cooper's 44-year-old proposal-calls for 71 miles of dams that will trap and control some 70 billion cu. ft. of sea water that floods into the Quoddy and Cobscook Bays with each tide. At high tide the water will flow into a "high pool" in Quoddy Bay. Then once a day during the period of "peak" power demand (from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.), locks will swing open and a wall of water will cascade through giant turbines into...
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