Talk:Grand Coulee, Washington
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[edit] Looks like a copyright issue
I pulled this text out of the article:
Grand Coulee Dam, hailed as the "Eighth Wonder of the World" when it was completed in 1941, is as confounding to the human eye as an elephant might be to an ant. It girdles the Columbia River with 12 million cubic yards of concrete, stacked one mile wide and as tall as a 46-story building, backing up a 150-mile long reservoir, spinning out more kilowatts than any other dam in the United States. As gargantuan as it is, Grand Coulee is only part of the massive Columbia Basin Project, which includes four other dams, three storage lakes, and 2,300 miles of irrigation canals, snaking through half a million acres of desert. No other public works project has had a greater impact on the development of the Pacific Northwest. However, the social and environmental costs have been so severe, according to a study released in 2000, that Grand Coulee probably could not be built today.
Follow this link http://www.visitokanogan.com/information/History-Images.html to learn more about the history and view some old photos of early Grand Coulee Washington and it's people...
Opening paragraph of HistoryLink.org Essay 7264, "Grand Coulee Dam -- a Snapshot History":
Grand Coulee Dam, hailed as the "Eighth Wonder of the World" when it was completed in 1941, is as confounding to the human eye as an elephant might be to an ant. It girdles the Columbia River with 12 million cubic yards of concrete, stacked one mile wide and as tall as a 46-story building, backing up a 150-mile long reservoir, spinning out more kilowatts than any other dam in the United States. As gargantuan as it is, Grand Coulee is only part of the massive Columbia Basin Project, which includes four other dams, three storage lakes, and 2,300 miles of irrigation canals, snaking through half a million acres of desert. No other public works project has had a greater impact on the development of the Pacific Northwest. However, the social and environmental costs have been so severe, according to a study released in 2000, that Grand Coulee probably could not be built today.
HistoryLink says: "All content on HistoryLink.org is owned by History Ink and subject to its copyright." It would be reasonable to quote and cite source, but then again, this is a big chunk of text about the dam, not the town, and the dam already has a page.
~ Bsktcase 21:31, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
