Word: snowpacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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POWER SHORTAGE is predicted for the Pacific Northwest aluminum industry next spring, even though new generators are in operation at McNary Dam, Hungry Horse and Albeni Falls. Drastically lower snowpack in the Columbia River watershed has dropped the river level. Without heavy new rains or snowfall in the next two months, the Bonneville Power Administration will have to cut back the 5 billion kilowatt-hours used by the aluminum companies...
...James Edward Church is a blue-eyed, twinkling man of 82 who looks like a rather hardy retired professor of Greek. That is just what he is, but he is better known as "the father of the snow survey" -the rough and rugged practical science of measuring the snowpack on high mountains...