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Howard A. Hanson Dam, spillway gates and intake. The Howard A. Hanson Dam is an earthen embankment structure at a length of 675 ft (205 m) and height of 235 ft (70 m). The base of the dam is 960 ft (290 m) wide and sits within Eagle Gorge, a ravine with nearly vertical rock walls. The reservoir withheld by the dam collects water from 220 square ...
The largest dam in Washington, in terms of structural volume, reservoir capacity and electricity production, is the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River. The tallest dam is Mossyrock Dam on the Cowlitz River, at 606 feet (185 m). The longest dam is O'Sullivan Dam on Crab Creek, at 19,000 feet (5,800 m).
Hanford Site. Coordinates: 46°38′51″N 119°35′55″W. Nuclear reactors line the riverbank at the Hanford Site along the Columbia River in January 1960. The N Reactor is in the foreground, with the twin KE and KW Reactors in the immediate background. The historic B Reactor, the world's first plutonium production reactor, is visible in the ...
Hansen Dam is a flood control dam in the northeastern San Fernando Valley, in the Lake View Terrace neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. [1] The dam was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District in 1940. [2] Hansen Dam was named after horse ranchers Homer and Marie Hansen, who established a ranch in the 19th century.
Nearly 100 LAFD units, joined by two hand crews from LACFD and multiple aircraft support teams were battling a brush fire near the Hansen Dam Recreational Area Sunday, labeled as the "Hansen Fire."
Range coordinates. 46°08′N 119°52.05′W. / 46.133°N 119.86750°W / 46.133; -119.86750. The Horse Heaven Hills are a long range of high, rolling hills in Klickitat, Yakima, and Benton counties in Washington. The hills are an anticline ridge in the Yakima Fold Belt formed by north–south compression of lava flows in the Columbia ...
About 1,000 people at the Hansen Dam Aquatic Center, which holds a city pool and recreational lake, were evacuated as the fire grew to about 12 acres. Fire near Hansen Dam contained after ...
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Lake Chelan ( / ʃəˈlæn / shə-LAN) is a narrow, 50.5 mi (81.3 km) long lake in Chelan County, north-central Washington state, U.S. [ 1] It is an overdeepened lake and resembles a fjord, with an average width of 1.3 mi (2.1 km). Near its upper end, the lake surface lies more than 6,600 ft (2,000 ...