Spillway -- Bonneville Lock and Dam on the Columbia River, Oregon
by Darin Volpe
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Spillway -- Bonneville Lock and Dam on the Columbia River, Oregon
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Darin Volpe
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Photograph - Photography
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Little water flows from the spillway at the Bonneville Dam on an August afternoon, but the arcs of algae are evidence of the flow that comes with winter.
One of many projects funded by Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal during the Great Depression of the 1930's, Bonneville Lock and Dam employed about 3,,000 people. Working 24 hours per day, the dam was completed in the five years between 1933 and 1938.
It was the second built of eleven dams built on the Columbia River in the United States between 1933 and 1971. Closest to the mouth of the river, it is only 40 miles from Portland, Oregon, and 135 river miles from the Pacific Ocean.
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January 8th, 2022
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