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Artist's conception of the $210,000 Dworshak Dam two miles upstream on the North Fork of the Clearwater river from the town of Ahsahka, Idaho. Dworshak Dam will be a concrete gravity dam with an initial power production potentially of 400,000 kilowatts from three generators. Three additional generators can be added later to boost the power output to 1,060,000 kilowatts. Dworshak dam will create a reservoir storing 3,454,000 acre-feet of water and will add substantially to the prime power production of hydroelectric plants downstream on the Snake and Columbia Rivers. Also, it will serve a vital role in flood control on the Clearwater, which has wide fluctuations in flow during the year. The Dworshak reservoir will be approximately 53 miles long. Congress appropriated $600,000 in planning funds in 1961 and in 1962 Congress appropriated $2,000,000 in construction funds. Start of construction began April, 1963, with building of access roads to the project.
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Title:
Dworshak Dam (Engineer recruitment program)
Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Date Created:
1965
Description:
Artist's conception of the $210,000 Dworshak Dam two miles upstream on the North Fork of the Clearwater river from the town of Ahsahka, Idaho. Dworshak Dam will be a concrete gravity dam with an initial power production potentially of 400,000 kilowatts from three generators. Three additional generators can be added later to boost the power output to 1,060,000 kilowatts. Dworshak dam will create a reservoir storing 3,454,000 acre-feet of water and will add substantially to the prime power production of hydroelectric plants downstream on the Snake and Columbia Rivers. Also, it will serve a vital role in flood control on the Clearwater, which has wide fluctuations in flow during the year. The Dworshak reservoir will be approximately 53 miles long. Congress appropriated $600,000 in planning funds in 1961 and in 1962 Congress appropriated $2,000,000 in construction funds. Start of construction began April, 1963, with building of access roads to the project.
Subjects:
dams in Idaho engineer recruitment program
Location:
Idaho Clearwater County Ahsahka
Latitude:
46.514192
Longitude:
-116.29492
Publisher:
University of Idaho Library Digital Initiatives, http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/
Source:
Army Corps of Engineers Dam Construction photographs, 1933-1965, PG 94, University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives
Finding Aid:
https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv165618
Source Identifier:
94-0-11
Type:
Image;StillImage
Format:
image/jpeg

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