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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Bonneville Power Administration, Bureau of Reclamation and contractor representatives from Wilson Construction company will hold a public meeting, Thursday, Feb. 16, from 4-7 p.m. to inform the public on construction details for the new powerlines from Grand Coulee Dam’s Third Power Plant. Replacing lines that take an underground route now, the 500-kilovolt power line project will take power through overhead lines, past the Visitor Center and up to the switch yards and on to the regional power grid. Construction activities began last week, BPA... Full story
The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1.5 million contract to modernize two existing passenger/freight elevators in the Third Power Plant at Grand Coulee Dam. Thyssenkrupp Elevator Corporation, Spokane Valley, Wash., was awarded the contract on Feb. 1. The contract was announced Tuesday. Work involves modernizing the two existing elevators. “This upgrade will ensure the safety of our employees while also keeping vital equipment in premium working order during the Third Powerplant Overhaul Project,” said Mark Jenson, Grand Coulee Project man... Full story
William (Bud) Lee Hertenstein Sr., entered into rest unexpectedly Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. He was born March 1, 1930, in Rush City, Minn., the youngest child of 16 born to John and Agnes Hertenstein. His father passed away suddenly after suffering a stroke when Bill was two years old. Bill spent his early years in Minnesota on the family farm and fishing from the banks of Rush Lake and Rush Creek. When he was a young man he moved to Othello, Wash., to work on the Columbia Basin Irrigation... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam School District is getting help for its efforts to fund a new school construction from Eastern Washington’s congressional delegation. In separate actions, both Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Rep “Doc” Hastings have taken up the school district’s interest. McMorris Rodgers represents Eastern Washington’s 5th District, which includes the east side of Coulee Dam. Hastings represents the 4th District, which covers Central Washington and abuts the 5th at Coulee Dam. Both are Rep... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 1/30 - Police are asking the Grant County Prosecutor’s office to file possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine), possession of drug paraphernalia, and making false statements against a Grand Coulee man officers say dropped a smoking pipe at the counter of a local business as he was leaving. The man denied that the pipe was his. It is being sent to the crime lab to see if fingerprints can be lifted from it. He was released pending the results of tests. - Two juveniles, one a 16-year-old from Electric City and t... Full story
Proposals accepted Electric City’s council accepted Coulee Playland’s proposal of rates at its meeting Jan. 24. Electric City leases the park area from the Bureau of Reclamation and then sublets to Hal Rauch who manages the of resort. Increases of $2 were made in camping charges and $3 in boat launching. Councilmember Birdie Hensley asked if Rauch would still going to allow Electric City residents half price for boat launching, and he said he will. Earth Day to be celebrated Electric City will celebrate Earth Day on April 28. Its council vot... Full story
William C. Wyatt, age 81 and a retired Civil Engineer from the Bureau of Reclamation, died peacefully in Spokane, Wash., on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, with family members at his side. Bill was born on May 11, 1930, in Scottsbluff, Neb., to the late Perley and Eloise Wyatt. In his early years, he lived the life of a rancher’s son, working the fields and cattle that his parents and grandparents had worked before him. He attended combined grade elementary schools in Harrisburg, Neb., and later attende... Full story
Ten Years Ago Grand Coulee Dam will soon display a large symbol intended to show the Bureau of Reclamation’s support of patriotism. A sea of red, white and blue could dominate the Grand Coulee Dam area this summer if American flags are put on utility poles throughout the area as planned. Several area farmers attended an open house at the Center School last night and voiced their concerns about the proposed transmission line between Spokane and Grand Coulee. Six Lake Roosevelt High School students participated in the 6th annual Eastern W... Full story
Town officials will have another opportunity tonight (Wednesday) to offer input on the Bonneville Power Administration’s Third Powerhouse powerline project. BPA’s senior project manager, Mark A. Korsness, said he planned to be at tonight’s meeting, set for 6 p.m. at town hall, to again review plans to string the high power lines from the Third Powerhouse, across the river and up the hill to the switch yards. BPA officials were in Coulee Dam in mid-December to review plans to get the proje... Full story
School district and federal officials met last week to talk about federal impacts on local schools. Grand Coulee Dam School District Superintendent Dennis Carlson met with Bureau of Reclamation Project Manager Mark Jenson and others last Thursday so the two parties could exchange views on the school position that work being done on the Third Powerhouse generators and on the John W. Keys III Pump-Generator Station impacts the school district. While doing the Environmental Assessment for its Third Powerhouse upgrade, the Bureau of Reclamation... Full story
The Bureau of Reclamation has raised the possibility of conflict of interest with its Grand Coulee Project budget director, Chris Christopherson, also being mayor of Grand Coulee. The city council moved quickly last Tuesday night to correct the potential problem by passing a motion that Mayor Pro-Tempore Paul Townsend sign on any particular agreements made between the city and the federal agency. The council learned that City Attorney Charles Zimmerman had looked into the conflict issue and had told the city that he didn’t think there was a c... Full story
Grand Coulee has amended its contract to supply potable water to the Bureau of Reclamation. The council voted Tuesday night last week to alter the contract to reflect the cost of a new water meter and work the city crew did to install and calibrate the equipment. The amount of the contract, which goes through 2022, has been raised by $3,625 to $2,231,750 for the life of the agreement. The water comes from Grand Coulee’s own water right and is pumped and delivered by Electric City through a special agreement between the two municipalities. G... Full story
About a dozen people who showed up for an informational meeting about a wastewater treatment plant project got assurances from two Gray & Osborne engineers that the extent of change was necessary to meet agency requirements. Jeff Stevens and Dave Van Cleve of G&O stated that the different elements of the project were as low as possible in cost and would allow considerable growth. The remodeling of the existing 40-year-old plant will likely begin in 2013 and take from 12 to 18 months to complete,... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam School District will get its opportunity, a bit late, to comment on how the Bureau of Reclamation’s Third Powerhouse remodeling project could affect schools in the area. The addendum to the Third Powerhouse Overhaul Environmental Assessment, will allow the school district to make its case that it was left out of the original assessment process and that it could have a significant impact on classrooms and schools in general. Schools have until Feb. 12, to provide addendum i... Full story