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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 .
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
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 ...
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]
The Columbia Basin. The Columbia River drainage basin is the drainage basin of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.It covers 668,000 km 2 or 258,000 sq mi. [1] In common usage, the term often refers to a smaller area, generally the portion of the drainage basin that lies within eastern Washington.
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.
The Columbia Basin Project changed this in 1952, using the ancient river bed as an irrigation distribution network. The Upper Grand Coulee was dammed and turned into Banks Lake . The lake is filled by pumps from the Grand Coulee Dam and forms the first leg of a one-hundred-mile (160 km) irrigation system.
Columbia Basin Project, largest reclamation project in United States Banks Lake, a 27-mile (43 km) long reservoir; Potholes Reservoir: 670,000 irrigated acres; Grand Coulee Dam; Okanogan Project [7] Conconully Dam and Reservoir; Salmon Lake Dam and Conconully Lake; Salmon Creek Diversion Dam; Yakima Project, 464,000 irrigable acres [8] Bumping Lake