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It has 11 generators rated in total 1300 MW. The project is on the Columbia River in north central Washington state about seven miles (11 km) upstream from the city of Wenatchee. The dam is 473 miles (761 km) above the mouth of the Columbia. The reservoir impounded by the dam is Lake Entiat.
Wenatchee (/ w ɛ ˈ n æ tʃ iː / weh-NATCH-ee) is the county seat and most populous city of Chelan County, Washington, United States. [6] The population within the city limits in 2010 was 31,925, [7] and has increased to 35,508 as of 2020. [8]
The city limits of Wenatchee are directly to the south of the river. U.S. Route 2 and U.S. Route 97 pass through the southern part of Sunnyslope in the Wenatchee River valley, crossing the Columbia River into Douglas County via the Richard Odabashian Bridge. State Route 285 leads south from US 2/97 into Wenatchee.
The Wenatchee–East Wenatchee Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of Chelan and Douglas Counties in Washington state, anchored by the cities of Wenatchee and East Wenatchee. According to the 2000 census the MSA had a population of 99,219.
Chelan County PUD owns and operates the nation's second largest nonfederal, publicly owned hydroelectric generating system. Two of the District's hydropower stations, Rocky Reach Dam and Rock Island Dam, are part of an 11-dam system on the U.S. portion of the Columbia River, which is fed by the fourth largest drainage system in North America.
The county seat and largest city is Wenatchee. [2] The county was created out of Okanogan and Kittitas Counties on March 13, 1899. [3] [4] It derives its name from a Chelan Indian word meaning "deep water," likely a reference to 55-mile (89 km)-long Lake Chelan, which reaches a maximum depth of 1,486 feet (453 m).
The East Wenatchee Clovis Site (also called the Richey-Roberts Clovis Site or the Richey Clovis Cache) is a deposit of prehistoric Clovis points and other implements, dating to roughly 11,000 radiocarbon years before present or about 13,000 calendar years before present, found near the city of East Wenatchee, Washington in 1987.
South Wenatchee is bordered to the northwest by the city of Wenatchee and to the northeast by the Columbia River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.5 square miles (4.0 km 2), of which 1.2 square miles (3.0 km 2) is land and 0.39 square miles (1.0 km 2), or 23.85%, is water. [4]