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  • Collection: Northwest Dams

Northwest -- Rivers -- Similkameen (#05)

"Similkameen River gorge. P.M.D. Dam (abandoned) 4 miles from Oroville; view S.W." Enloe Dam

Spokane Valley -- Agriculture (#01)

"Irrigation flume and crops alongside in upper section of valley."

Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#02)

"WWP's Monroe Street hydroelectric plant under construction in 1889. This facility, which has served five generations of Inland Northwest customers, is currently being upgraded- a renovation that includes replacement of the five old turbine-…

Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#04)

"WWP's Long Lake Dam is still an impressive structure more than 75 years after its construction. The project which would have spillways 170 feet high- the highest in the world at the time- and the largest turbines then in opperation, was a mammoth…

Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#05)

"Cabinet Gorge Dam, constructed on a spectacular canyon on the Clark Fork River in Idaho, is the second largest of WWP's nine hydro electric facilities. Working 24 hours a day, workers drove the two 1,000-foot diversion tunnels and erected the coffer…

Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#23)

"Looking down stream to power house and high railroad bridge."

Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#11)

"Culligan building on right. Monroe bridge and railroad bridge"

Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#12)

"Looking upstream at headgate house and dam"

Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#15)

"Northern Pacific and Monroe Street Bridge looking downstream"

Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#17)

"Headgate house, Post Street Building. Montgomery Wards"

Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#19)

"Power house and pipe stacks"

Spokane -- Washington Water Power Company (#21)

Post Street building and Post Street Bridge