Showing posts with label Connolly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Connolly. Show all posts
Friday, May 8, 2026

Bacon Tunnel, Near Coulee City, Changed To Full-Depth Operation

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From the "Spokesman Review." July 23, 1947
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Thursday, May 7, 2026

Biggest Things Abound In Basin

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From the "Spokesman Review." December 23, 1946
Sunday, December 17, 2023

1942 Top Map Coulee City To Bacon Tunnel

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Each square represents a square mile. Section 21 is where the water tunnel for the Federal irrigation project comes out, near where the sidi...
Saturday, July 2, 2022

1947 Bacon Tunnel Construction Photos

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Photos courtesy of Cheryl Bensch.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Two Mile South Dam Being Built At Coulee City

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From the "Spokesman Review." December 6, 1947
Monday, April 25, 2022

Work On Bacon Tunnel Starts

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From the "Spokesman Review." December 18, 1946
Thursday, April 14, 2022

Bacon Tunnel Bore Crews Encounter Sandstone Rock

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From the Spokane "Chronicle." December 26, 1946
Sunday, March 27, 2022

Cliff All Marked For Tunnelers

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From the "Spokesman Review." December 23, 1946

Wood Dug Out Of Basin Rock May Be Oldest On Continent

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From the Spokane "Chronicle." April 10, 1947
Saturday, March 26, 2022

Basalt Walled Valley To Carry Columbia Basin Irrigation Canal

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From the Spokane "Chronicle." October 14, 1946 There was a short construction railroad out here that helped haul muck out of the t...

Bacon Tunnel And Siphon

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From the "Spokesman Review." May 12, 1946
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

1947 Bacon Tunnel Lining View

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From the Spokane "Chronicle." March 7, 1947.
Monday, March 21, 2022

1947 Bacon Tunnel View

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From the Spokane "Chronicle." February 24, 1947
Friday, February 18, 2022

Two Mile Tunnel Is New Superlative For Coulee

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From the "Spokesman Review." December 23, 1946
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Present Status: Columbia Basin Project

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From the "Spokesman Review." October 16, 1949
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Bacon Siphon And Tunnel

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Written by me, Dan Bolyard.   Part of the scheme to get irrigation water from the Columbia River was to pump it into the upper Grand Coule...
Friday, January 22, 2021

Statement Of Significance Bacon Tunnel

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  Columbia Basin Project The Columbia Basin Project (CBP) is the largest Reclamation project in Washington. At 670,000 acres under irrigati...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

1976 Bacon Tunnel View

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Courtesy of the Bureau of Reclamation. November 19, 1976. One of the last official photographs taken at the south end of the Bacon Tunnel. S...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

1948 Bacon Tunnel View

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Monday, September 21, 2020

1947 Bacon Tunnel View

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May 11, 1947 Construction crews from the Conolley Construction Company are working on some of the last details before the tunnel gets line...