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Grand Coulee
Rorty, James | March 20, 1935 issue

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The Grand Coulee dam, now being built across a bend of the Columbia River in northeastern Washington D.C and designed both to produce cheap power and to irrigate 1,200,000 acres of arid land in the Columbia Basin, is the largest public-works project undertaken by the U.S. government. The low dam now being built will cost $63,000,000 and will yield power only. The projected high dam, with 2,647,000 installed horse-power, more than Boulder Darn and three times as much as Muscle Shoals, will cost $179,000,000.

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RIVERS -- Washington (State); DAMS; LAND use; GOVERNMENT policy; COLUMBIA River; WASHINGTON (State); UNITED States
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