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A three-year dispute over the cost of the Box Canyon Dam’s fish-friendly turbine upgrades has been resolved through binding arbitration. The Pend Oreille County Public Utility District agreed to ...
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Box Canyon Dam will become friendlier to fish under a federally mediated deal that ends a decade of litigation over the structure's new operating license. The agreement between ...
Almost since it was built in the early 1950s, Box Canyon Dam has generated just about as much paperwork as it has electricity. The cascade continued last week with the filing of a lawsuit against ...
turbines spin at the Box Canyon Dam, creating energy that once powered a nearby paper mill. Soon, however, that energy will power homes and businesses in Clark County. Clark Public Utilities ...
After decades of drought, the reservoir created by Glen Canyon Dam has dwindled to just a third ... “When I was a teenager there were places on maps that were considered forever gone,” he ...
Lone Rock is reflected in muddy waters at Wahweap Bay in Lake Powell.Credit...Photographs by Cody Cobb for The New York Times Supported by By Dale Maharidge Mr. Maharidge is a professor at ...
Crews work to reopen the road to the Oregon side of Hells Canyon Dam. (idahopower.com) The only road to Hells Canyon Dam, which ends on the Oregon side of the Snake River, could be closed for up ...
The rodent compromised electrical box shorted out, arcing and then sparking dry grass around it. The Strontia Springs Dam is about 6 miles upstream from the mouth of Waterton Canyon on the South ...
One of the deadliest disasters in American history, the collapse of the St. Francis Dam in 1928 left devastation in its wake. Today, only fragments remain—but they still echo the scale of the ...
The Bear Canyon Shuttle will have summer family rates as part of a Picnic at the Dam event over the summer. Families can enjoy taking a cooler and picnic supplies on the shuttle and enjoy a picnic ...
Crews directed by the Kalispel Tribe and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife have been setting 28 to 32 gillnets a day in the river from Newport downstream 55 miles to Box Canyon Dam.