09-wallula_gap_adj

Columbia River


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Washington & Oregon. Pix not in their own set (e.g., Wanapum, Grand Coulee Dam).

09-wallula_gap_adj

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08-wallula_gap_ig_adj

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01-hanford_reach-r_adj

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02-columbia_view

01-John_Day_q_Dam-8-86_adj

1-23-cliff_along_reach_ig_adj

Beach on the Hanford Reach

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Columbia River, Washington state, USA. This is the last undammed stretch of the Columbia in the US, finally protected as a wild & scenic river. The Army Corps of Engineers tried for _years_ to build a dam, but it never happened. The Reach goes around the north side of the notorious Hanford Reservation, once the site of the primary plutonium-production reactor in the US. Large parts of the area are still off-limits due to safety concerns, but it's no longer a top-secret site. A few years before this, if you'd stopped your boat on this beach, you'd have soon been visited by some _very_ humorless guys toting M-16s! Ironically, it was probably the proximity to Hanford that kept any dam from being built.

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1-15-reach_view_ig_adj

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