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Dams of the Columbia River Basin. Click to view higher resolution and read legend. Hydroelectric generators in the basin sized by capacity. 17 dams on the British Columbia side of Canada-US border not shown. There are more than 60 dams in the Columbia River watershed in the United States and Canada. Tributaries of the Columbia River and their ...
Cascade Locks is a city in Hood River County, Oregon, United States. The city got its name from a set of locks built to improve navigation past the Cascades Rapids of the Columbia River. The U.S. federal government approved the plan for the locks in 1875, construction began in 1878, and the locks were completed on November 5, 1896.
They considered various sites, as early as 1999; the most extensive plan called for a 60-acre (24 ha) facility with 250 hotel rooms in Cascade Locks, Oregon. The proposed site is within the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, and adjacent to a federally designated wilderness area, but within the city limits of Cascade Locks.
Listed in order going downstream: British Columbia: . Headwaters to the Canada–United States border: . Canal Flats; Fairmont Hot Springs; Windermere; Invermere; Radium Hot Springs ...
The Dalles Lock and Dam is a concrete-gravity run-of-the-river dam spanning the Columbia River, two miles (3.2 km) east of the city of The Dalles, Oregon, United States. [2] It joins Wasco County, Oregon , with Klickitat County, Washington , 192 miles (309 km) upriver from the mouth of the Columbia near Astoria, Oregon .
Portland, Oregon to Vancouver, Washington 45°37′29″N 122°41′27″W / 45.624722°N 122.690833°W / 45.624722; -122.690833 ( Burlington Northern Railroad Bridge