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418 million KWh. The Culmback Dam (also known as the George Culmback Dam or the Snoqualmie National Forest Dam) [3] is a large rockfill hydroelectric and water supply dam on the Sultan River, a tributary of the Skykomish River, in Washington. Built in 1965, [4] the dam is 640 feet (200 m) long at the crest and 262 feet (80 m) high.
The Sultan River is a river in Snohomish County in the U.S. state of Washington. It is a tributary of the Skykomish River, which it joins at the town of Sultan, Washington. The river is dammed in its upper third by Culmback Dam to form Spada Lake. Both the Sultan River and the town of Sultan were named by prospectors for the chief of a ...
Sultan, Washington. Sultan is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. It is located approximately 23 miles (37 km) east of Everett at the confluence of the Skykomish River and the Sultan River, a minor tributary. The city had a population of 5,146 at the 2020 census. The city was founded in 1880 at the site of a Skykomish village ...
The Henry M. Jackson Hydroelectric Project, or Jackson Hydro Project, is an electric power generating project on the Sultan River operated and maintained by the Snohomish County Public Utility District in Washington, co-licensed by the city of Everett, Washington. [1] Beginning operations in 1984, the project aims to bring clean and renewable ...
The largest dam in Washington, in terms of structural volume, reservoir capacity and electricity production, is the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River. The tallest dam is Mossyrock Dam on the Cowlitz River, at 606 feet (185 m). The longest dam is O'Sullivan Dam on Crab Creek, at 19,000 feet (5,800 m).
Skykomish River. The Skykomish River is a 29-mile (47 km) long river in the U.S. state of Washington which drains the west side of the Cascade Mountains in the southeast section of Snohomish County and the northeast corner of King County. The river starts with the confluence of the North Fork Skykomish River and South Fork Skykomish River ...
Piri Reis map. The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives, housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. When rediscovered in 1929, the remaining fragment garnered international attention as it includes a partial copy of an otherwise lost map by ...
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