Linemen build 300 foot tall transmission towers on a hillside adjacent to Grand Coulee Dam. The towers will support new high voltage transmission lines linking Grand Coulee’s Third Powerplant with a switchyard one mile away. The lines span 3600 feet across the Columbia River.
Moonlight reflects off FDR reservoir. The draft tubes from Grand Coulee Dam’s Pump Generation Plant (PGP) are visible in the foreground. The PGP pumps water from the reservoir uphill into Banks Lake. The water is used to irrigate over 500,000 acres of farmland in the Columbia Basin Project.
The laser show at Grand Coulee Dam starts Memorial Day Weekend sand runs through late September. The show 36 minutes long and is free of charge.
The laser show at Grand Coulee Dam starts Memorial Day Weekend sand runs through late September. The show 36 minutes long and is free of charge.
Large woody debris (LWD) piles aligned on the Entiat River near Chelan, Wash. The LWD’s were installed to create habitat for salmon and bull trout – threatened and listed species under the Endangered Species Act.
Spectacular Night View of 2012 Glen Canyon Dam Experimental High Flow. Watch the video: http://on.doi.gov/SVjwva Photo Credit: Andy Pernick, Bureau of Reclamation
2012 Glen Canyon Dam Experimental High Flow - Watch the video: http://on.doi.gov/SVjwva Photo Credit: Andy Pernick, Bureau of Reclamation
2012 Glen Canyon Dam Experimental High Flow - Watch the video: http://on.doi.gov/SVjwva Photo Credit: Stacey Smith, Bureau of Reclamation
Dragonflies at New Melones Lake - Recently, 18 youth and adults, ages 4 to 55, were excited to learn about the life of dragonflies and damselflies at the Glory Hole Amphitheater at New Melones Lake near Sonora, Calif. Interpretive programs and events at New Melones Lake tie into America’s Great Outdoors initiative (http://americasgreatoutdoors.gov/), which seeks to empower Americans to share in the responsibility to conserve, restore and provide better access to our lands and waters. http://on.doi.gov/RtyJ7l
Parker Dam is a concrete arch structure commonly called the ‘deepest dam in the world.’ Seventy-three percent of the dam’s structural height of 320 feet is below the original river bed; only about 85 feet of the dam’s strucural height is visible (its superstructure rises another 62 feet above the roadway across the top of the dam). Parker Dam has a volume of 380,000 cubic yards of concrete. At its crest, the dam is 856 feet long. Water control is provided by five 50-ft-square gates. http://on.doi.gov/PvVCTv
