Jacobs has been appointed by Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) to deliver engineering and advisory services for the modernisation of the Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington, US. The Grand ...

The Grand Coulee Dam, a product of the Great Depression, is getting a major facelift as federal operators seek to squeeze even more power out of the nation’s largest hydroelectric producer.

GRAND COULEE DAM — Use 12 million cubic yards of concrete to put a giant cheese wedge in the middle of a thousands-year-old river and you’re bound to stir up questions.

The Grand Coulee Dam, a product of the Great Depression, is getting a major upgrade as federal operators seek to squeeze even more power out of the nation's largest hydro- electric dam.

When Grand Coulee Dam was built in the 1930s without fish ladders, ... engineers realized it would be difficult to incorporate the flume and elevator they had devised for fish passage.

Grand Coulee Dam. By the numbers: Grand Coulee, completed in 1942, is almost a mile long and one of the biggest concrete structures in the world. It's the biggest producer of hydroelectric power ...

Grand Coulee Dam is one of 31 federal dams that generate more than half of the hydropower in the Northwest. BPA delivers power generated by the federal dams, ...

The Hoover Dam on the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, constructed between 1931 and 1936, was slightly taller, but Grand Coulee was more than four times as long.

The dam at Grand Coulee would someday be mentioned with the Great Pyramids of Egypt, the Great Wall of China and the Panama Canal as one of humankind's greatest achievements.