Posted by: sarge - Ex Member Posted on: 10/19/05 at 14:42:54
There it is... Cool, Pat!
Posted by: rob_maglio - Ex Member Posted on: 10/17/05 at 17:47:28
This was from the UW library. I found a website just messing around. They had a lot of picts of what would be Lake Roosevelt before it was damned. Some roads beds down there I never knew existed.
Posted by: varmint - Ex Member Posted on: 10/17/05 at 17:19:21
Posted by: sarge - Ex Member Posted on: 10/17/05 at 16:56:12
That is a cool pic, Rob. Every time I go to Banks I mean to climb up the trail at Steamboat Rock and take in the view, but it's kinda hard to get away from the fishies
I couldn't find it doing a quick search, but somewhere out there on the net there is a cool pic of a farmer plowing his field, which was really going to become Barker Flats soon... Steamboat Rock is in the background. It is a cool pic! If I find it I will post it.
Chris
Posted by: rob_maglio - Ex Member Posted on: 10/14/05 at 16:24:27
This is a picture from Oct 21st 1947 after the completion of the Grand Coulee Dam. You can tell that the water had not yet been pumped into the Grand Coulee area forming Banks Lake. That is Steamboat rock off in the distance out by itself. I believe they built both dams forming Banks after the main dam, and then pumped the water in. This was all part of the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project. Chris and Danny probably studied this. It's pretty cool though.