Word: damming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the Commissar's car took the Ambassador to the metallurgical centre of the Ukraine near the great Dnepr River hydroelectric dam. In the heat of Russia's Revolution, some demanding comrades from the Ukraine called on the great Lenin and wanted to know what the Ukraine was going to get out of all this...
President Roosevelt last week sent a chit to remind his Congress that one of his New Deal projects would be ready to begin functioning before the end of this year. That was the $45,000,000 Bonneville dam on the Columbia River 30 miles above Portland. He sent a report saying: "Incidental to its major purpose of improving navigation, the project will produce electric energy which will be used in the operation of the dam, locks and fish-ways, and surplus power will be available for distribution to the public." He urgently advised Congress to pass a bill providing...
Bonneville dam is really not one dam but two, situated catercorner to each other on opposite sides of Bradford Island which lies in midstream. It has a single-lift lock which will raise vessels 66 ft., higher than any other single lock in the world. Since it is the only dam in the U. S. (except abandoned 'Quoddy on the opposite side of the U. S.) situated on tidewater, it will enable ocean-going vessels, once channels have been deepened, to go 50 miles farther up the Columbia to The Dalles, and when eight or nine more dams...
Navigation, however, is not the chief problem involved in the administration of the new dam, nor are the fish problems. Two salmon ladders were built-cascades with steps one foot high and 16 ft. wide. Six salmon "elevators" or fish locks were also provided. These are chambers 20 by 30 ft. into which the salmon may swim; then a gate is closed and a grating, similar to an elevator, rises until the fish can swim out into the reservoir above the dam. These devices have not yet been tested, for salmon are still able to swim between the piers...
...last week it appeared that from the beginning the Power tail is to wag the dam dog at Bonneville. Not to ship experts or fish experts but to power experts did Franklin Roosevelt go for advice on Bonneville's "incidental" problem. The President's Committee on National Power Policy (created six weeks ago) recommended in its first report that an administrator be appointed for Bonneville to conduct its operations along lines "not incompatible with any national power policy which may ultimately be established...