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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Long Lake Headworks, Specs. 2324. View of the Headworks structure taken from the left canal bank opposite station 755+00 looking upstream and showing start of backfill work behind the outlet warp transition. Backfill material is loaded into trucks by the crane in the background and hauled to the point where the truck is unloading. The dirt is spread in place by hand and compacted with air-tampers. The white floor slab at the left of the picture was placed on March 27, 1950. Work is being performed by George B. Henly Construction So., Inc. under Schedule I of above specifications. H.E. Foss, photographer.
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Title:
Backfill Work (Construction methods and Long Lake dam)
Creator:
Foss, H.E.
Date Created:
1950-03-28
Description:
Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Long Lake Headworks, Specs. 2324. View of the Headworks structure taken from the left canal bank opposite station 755+00 looking upstream and showing start of backfill work behind the outlet warp transition. Backfill material is loaded into trucks by the crane in the background and hauled to the point where the truck is unloading. The dirt is spread in place by hand and compacted with air-tampers. The white floor slab at the left of the picture was placed on March 27, 1950. Work is being performed by George B. Henly Construction So., Inc. under Schedule I of above specifications. H.E. Foss, photographer.
Subjects:
dam construction construction methods and Long Lake dam
Location:
Washington (State) Stevens County Long Lake
Latitude:
47.836598
Longitude:
-117.839946
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:
94-4-3601
Type:
Image;StillImage
Format:
image/jpeg

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"Backfill Work (Construction methods and Long Lake dam)", Columbia River Basin Project: Dam Construction in the Pacific Northwest, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/crbp/items/crbp940.html
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