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PRIEST RAPIDS power project, first test of Eisenhower's "partnership" policy, cleared its last big hurdle when the Washington state legislature approved long-term sale of its surplus power to private utilities. The dam will be built by the Grant County Public Utility Districts and financed by a bond issue. The $361 million, 1,000,000 kw. Columbia River project will be one of the largest in the U.S. Scheduled completion date: summer...
...AFRICAN DAM will be built at Ka-riba Gorge on the Zambezi River. Plans projected by the Central African Federation (TIME, Sept. 21, 1953) call for a $240 million dam that will have a 400-ft. wall backing up a lake 150 miles long. The first six generators to provide power for developing the mineral-rich area (uranium, copper, chrome, asbestos) will be on the line by 1961. Eventual power capacity...
...cement that can be mixed with soil to make airport runways, driveways, canal linings and dam facings...
POWER SHORTAGE is predicted for the Pacific Northwest aluminum industry next spring, even though new generators are in operation at McNary Dam, Hungry Horse and Albeni Falls. Drastically lower snowpack in the Columbia River watershed has dropped the river level. Without heavy new rains or snowfall in the next two months, the Bonneville Power Administration will have to cut back the 5 billion kilowatt-hours used by the aluminum companies...
...some 50 years and has been passed over by four previous Congresses, largely because of unrelenting opposition from 1) Southern California power interests who profit under the present distribution of Colorado River water and 2) conservationists (e.g., Ulysses S. Grant III) who for years charged (erroneously) that the big dam proposed for Echo Park, Colo, would flood out the dinosaur remains in the national park there. They have since shifted their argument to the claim that if Dinosaur National Monument is invaded today, Yellowstone will be tomorrow's victim. To the conservationists, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay has a trenchant...