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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 .
Currently, the Columbia Basin Project irrigates 670,000 acres (2,700 km 2) with a potential for 1.1 million. [72] Over 60 different crops are grown within the project and distributed throughout the United States.
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]
Banks Lake is a 27-mile-long (43 km) reservoir in central Washington in the United States.. Part of the Columbia Basin Project, Banks Lake occupies the northern portion of the Grand Coulee, a formerly dry coulee near the Columbia River, formed by the Missoula Floods during the Pleistocene epoch.
The Quincy-Columbia Basin Irrigation District (QCBID) is one of three independent non-profit quasi-municipalities founded under Washington state law that hold a contract with the United States Bureau of Reclamation, a division of the United States Department of Interior, to operate and maintain a portion of the Columbia Basin Project.
This project, Waneta Expansion, is a partnership, with Fortis Inc. holding a 51% share in the project and the two Crown agencies Columbia Power Corporation and Columbia Basin Trust holding a 32.5% and 16.5% share, respectively. SNC-Lavalin designed and built the project which came online in 2015.
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 ...