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The Dalles Lock and Dam (The Dalles Dam) is one of the 10 largest producers of hydroelectric power in the United States. Since its first generator went online in 1957, the dam has produced more than 9.2 billion kilowatt hours of electricity. Today [2021], its 22 generators in its 2,089-foot-long powerhouse produce enough electricity to power 800,000 homes. The dam is the second of eight on the Columbia-Snake Inland Waterway, a 465-mile river highway that allows barge transport of cargo between the Pacific Ocean and Lewiston, Idaho. Located east of The Dalles, Oregon, it stretches nearly a mile and a half across the Columbia River and the Oregon-Washington state line, forming Lake Celilo behind it.
Agencies eye Cowlitz River dredging to lower flood risk By Katie Fairbanks, The Daily News
Published: February 21, 2021, 6:03am
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LONGVIEW Local, state and Army Corps of Engineers officials are planning to dredge the Cowlitz River to lower flood risks until the dam holding back sediment still flowing from Mount St. Helens is raised.
The Corps Portland District also is looking for ways to pay for river monitoring that would help develop the agency’s long-term sediment plan as well as update the assessment of flood risks for communities along the river.
Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler and U.S. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell on Thursday urged the Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Department of the Army to include funding in the 2022 fiscal year budget for sediment monitoring.