Floating Camp
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Floating camps were used by the WPA to clear otherwise unreachable areas of the flood zone. Listen to the audio clip for more on the floating camps of Grand Coulee.
Courtsey of The Bureau of Reclamation.
This file appears in: Good Fishing on the Main Street of Marcus
Good Fishing on the Main Street of Marcus
As the Grand Coulee Dam grew higher in the 1930s, the water of the Columbia River rose behind it. 150 miles of the free-flowing river was transformed into the placid Lake Roosevelt, drowning hundreds of acres of timber, farmland, Indian villages,…