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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, November 8, 1956
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SWIFT POWER DAM. highest earth-fill dam In the world, will look like this when completed by Pacific
Power & Light company. Massive dam will be 510 feet high from foundation to crest and will
contain 15,000.000 cubic yards of rock and earth. Power house at dam will be rated at 189,000
kilowatts, while a second one downstream will be rated at 67,
500 kilowatts. Entire project is to be In operation late in 1958.
Drawing below shows comprehensive plan for power develop
ment being carried out on the Lewis river by Pacific Power &
Light. TheYale and Mrwin plants, totaling 233,000 kilowatts
are already in operation. Swift is under construction, and the
preposed Muddy development, rated at 100,000 kilowatts, and
Meadows, estimated at 75,000 and 100.000 kilowatts, are under
investigation.
New PPfirL Swift
Dam to Be World's
Highest Earth Fill
A world record for high earth
fill dams will be established by
Pacific Power & Light company
when it completes the Swift power
dam, its newest power project on
the Lewis river.
Paul B. McKee, president of
Pacific, said that the project also
will have the company's largest
power plant. It will be completed
and in production late in 1958.
Into the massive dam will go
15,000,000 cubic yards of rock and
earth enough to bury a 20-square-block
area more than 500
feet deep.
Contract for construction of the
dam has been awarded by Pacific
to the J. A. Jones Construction
and Charles H. Tompkins com
panies. Both have been active
in dam and power plant con
struction throughout the United
States and have just finished the
Palisades dam project in Idaho
for the bureau of reclamation.
The Jones company also was
part of the Atkinson-Jones-Os-
trander contractor group which
built McNary dam on the Colum
bia. Bid price for building Swift
dam, including sdllwav. Dower
tunnel and excavation for the
power house, was $18,272,000, Mc
Kee said.
In addition to the huge quan
tity of "fill" which will go into
the Swift dam, the contract calls
for placement of more than 55,
000 cubic yards of concrete and
6,400,000 pounds of reinforcing,
structural and plate steel.
The dam. will be 510 feet high
from foundation to crest, 2100 feet
long at the crest and 1950 feet
thick at the base. A large diver
sion tunnel which carries the
river underground for 2990 feet
around the site of the dam during
construction already is in use.
Output of the Swift dam power
house will be 189,000 kilowatts.
State Weed Control
Meetings Scheduled
Nov. 12-14 at Bend
The annual strategy meeting
for Oregon's continuing war on
weeds is scheduled November 12
to 14 at Bend, reports Roy Steven
son, Madras president of the Ore
gon Weed Conference.
New chemicals, weed control
for both farm and non-farm
lands, and weed problems of for
est and range lands are main
phases of this year's program.
The five-year old conference to
combat the state's No. 1 Dest.
Stevenson says, is open to every
one who is growing or fighting
weeds. Interested persons can
obtain advance copies of the pro
gram from conference secretary
Rex Warren, Oregon State college
farm crop specialist.
Representatives of four malor
chemical companies will report
on new chemicals what they
control and how to use them.
OSC scientists will review experi
mental work with weed control
on both agricultural and non
agricultural lands. The latter in
cludes home and industrial sites,
parks and golf courses, and right.
of-ways for highways and utili
ties. Persons concerned with
such lands, includine citv offi
cials and representatives of the
county government, are urged to
attend.
Weed and brush control on
range nd forest lands will be dis
cussed by U. S. forest service rep
resentatives and OSC researcher
Don Hyder of the Squaw Butte
Harney branch experiment sta
tion near Burns, who will advise
ranchers on aerial and ground
spraying for control of sagebrush
and rabbit brush.
Other topics for the three-day
session include: safer use of her
bicides, Virgil Freed, OSC agricul
tural chemist; control of weeds
in a long ditches, Dean Boyle,
Boise, U. S. bureau of reclama
tion ; cost study of commercial
spray application; weed law re
port and common ragweed in
Oregon, Frank McKennon, state
department of agriculture.
Sessions will start November
12 at 1:30 p. m Pilot Butte Inn.
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My Thanks-
To the voters of Morrow county who gave me their
support in my race for Representative from the 22nd
district. Your efforts in my behalf are greatly ap
preciated. Jerry Barnett
A second power house 3Va miles
downstream will develoD annthpr
67,500 kilowatts and will be built
and owned by the Cowlitz county
PUD in a joint develompnt nf
the project.
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