Flood Zone
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The entire area of the flood zone had to be cleared of debris before the water rose and washed it into the dam. Toward the end of the clearing opperations, crews had to resorts to burnings inorders to get everything cleared in time.
Courtesy of the Northwest Room at the Spokane Public Library.
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,…