The structure rising across the Grand Coulee was going to dam the Columbia River, provide electricity for tens of thousands of homes and water to irrigate millions of acres of farmland.

The modernization project will upgrade the transmission facilities for the Washington state dam, which has a capacity of 7 GW.

In the new dry and barren Columbia basin, Grand Coulee will irrigate and electrify ... from a large gulch that runs 175 ft. below the low water surface of the river, 200,000 cu.

Banks Lake on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, is a 27-mile-long reservoir created by water pump from the Grand Coulee Dam, run by the Department of Reclamation. Credit: AP/Martha Bellisle “These are ...

"The crews did an awesome job; we got there we started getting water on the fire and we had it contained pretty fast. It was a routine job for us," Fish said. The Grand Coulee Volunteers have ...

The Grand Coulee in Washington is an ancient river bed ... Lake Missoula's 500 cubic miles of water flooded, equivalent to ten times the world's combined flow of all rivers, in just 48 hours.

The Bureau of Reclamation provides water and hydropower to the public ... The cuts included workers at the Grand Coulee Dam, the largest hydropower generator in North America, according to two ...