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    Rendering of The Dalles Dam Spillway, Columbia River, Oregon, 1954

    District takes Dam Safety exercises to community partners

    The District’s Dam Safety and Readiness sections are following an aggressive schedule of internal drills, but are also traveling to the Rogue and Willamette basins and the Columbia Gorge this summer to hold project familiarization sessions and tabletop exercises with local and county emergency managers and responders.
  • Overhead bridge cranes travel the interior length of Corps powerhouses, mounted on parallel rails above the huge generators. A hoist, the lifting component of a crane, travels across the width of the bridge crane carrying loads and suspending multi-ton parts for maintenance and installation projects. This is a smaller bridge crane, with a capacity of 300 tons; shown here as it “flies a load” in Detroit Dam’s powerhouse.

    Cranes take the loads off and up and over

    Omnipresent cranes do the heavy lifting around Corps projects, like strong workhorses on a pioneer farm. All Corps dams have one. The spillway gates at Bonneville Dam and other dams need them, and they slice the horizon of almost every Corps construction project.

  • Volunteerism - the unexpected gifts of giving

    Corps volunteer James Browne has volunteered every summer at Bonneville for nine years, and shares a reflection on his volunteer experiences.