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Northwest may blaze U.S. path to green grid
December 15, 2008 /
During the height of the Great Depression in 1933, one of the largest public-works projects of the New Deal began to take shape on the banks of the Columbia River in Eastern Washington.
Seven thousand workers employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built Grand Coulee Dam — a mile wide and twice as tall as Niagara Falls — along with Bonneville Dam in the Columbia Gorge and a transmission grid that electrified the Northwest.
By Les Blumenthal
McClatchy Newspapers
Full Story: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008518325_works15.html
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