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Interest in completing the Columbia Basin Project's 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km 2) has grown in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. One reason for the renewed interest is the substantial depletion of the Odessa aquifer .
According to an economic analysis by Highland Economics the CBDL had done for the project in 2022, the Columbia Basin Project's economic contribution to the country includes $2.66 billion in ...
The Potholes Reservoir is part of the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project. It is formed by the O'Sullivan Dam and located in central Washington, in the United States. The reservoir is fed by water from Moses Lake, part of the Crab Creek basin. The area features several lakes (typically 30-70 yards wide and 10–30 feet deep).
The earliest known proposal to irrigate the Grand Coulee with the Columbia River dates to 1892, when the Coulee City News and The Spokesman Review reported on a scheme by a man named Laughlin McLean to construct a 1,000 ft (305 m) dam across the Columbia River, high enough that water would back up into the Grand Coulee.
Pinto Dam and Billy Clapp Lake are part of the Main Canal (1951) of the Columbia Basin project. [8] The canal is 8.3 miles (13.4 km), from Banks lake to Billy Clapp Lake. . From the Billy Clap Lakes outlet, the lower reach of the Main Canal continues westward to divide into the East Low and West Canals near Adco on Washingto
Hells Canyon Dam, Snake River Snake River near Twin Falls, Idaho Coho Spawning on the Salmon River. The Columbia Basin Initiative is a 2023 agreement between the U.S. government, four sovereign Native American Tribes (Nez Perce, Yakama, Warm Springs and Umatilla) and the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon to provide over $1 billion in funds for salmon restoration and clean energy production. [1]
Columbia Plateau, the geographic region in the Pacific Northwest commonly referred to as the Columbia Basin; Columbia Plateau (ecoregion), an ecoregion in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington; Columbia River drainage basin, a drainage basin covering parts of U.S. and Canada; Columbia River Basalt Group, a set of rock layers that underlies ...
Among the largest of these water diversion projects is the Columbia Basin Project, which diverts water at the Grand Coulee Dam. The Bureau of Reclamation manages many of these water diversion projects. Some dams in the Pacific Northwest and California block passage for anadromous fish species such as Pacific Salmon and steelhead.