News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Grand Coulee Police 2/27 - Safeway asked that a man be banned from the store for a year. - An Electric City man told police that he wanted to add to a list of things missing from a residence there. He said missing were VCR tapes, some antique bottles, two vases, a glass globe with a dancing girl, three pictures from Germany, a bamboo picture, a vibrating recliner rocker, and a Play Station with several games. He said more items were piled up by the door. - Police caught a woman in a small, black sports car from Pateros inside the fence at the 2... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 2/21 - Police got a call from a Coulee Dam reserve officer that he was following a car near Jones Bay whose driver appeared to be under the influence. An officer arrived at the scene where the vehicle was stopped, but the driver didn’t show any signs of impairment. - A woman called and told police that a certain woman was driving around “high as a kite” and “driving all over.” Police went to where the driver was, and she appeared fine. 2/22 - Police were advised that a subject was locked inside the fence at Grand Coulee Recy... Full story
The Bureau of Reclamation is advising motorists and visitors to Grand Coulee Dam to anticipate traffic delays on highway 155 and closures of adjacent facilities while the Bonneville Power Administration prepares to remove overhead transmission lines. The overhead lines cross Highway 155, the Grand Coulee Dam Visitor Center, and the Lower Visitor Center Park. To ensure public safety, traffic delays and the closure of the visitor center and park will be required. Starting Feb. 23, helicopter crews will take part in classroom and possible flight... Full story
Chamber of commerce members and “Over the Dam” run officials got good news Thursday when they learned that despite work at the dam, the race can likely go on as scheduled. Public Affairs Officer Lynne Brougher told chamber members that there would be a free lane over the top of the dam and that the run could likely be held. A year ago, there had been some discussion the race might not be held across the dam because of construction. She told the 26 that turned out for the meeting that there would be heavy equipment on the top of the dam but tha... Full story
The Bureau of Reclamation will spend $50 million on six rural water projects throughout the western United States, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced recently. Mostly dedicated to providing potable water to communities, the funding also includes $500,000 for the Odessa Subarea Special Study (Columbia Basin Project) to be used to complete the Environmental Impact Statement and associated analyses, such as hydrologic modeling, engineering and economic assessments, to complete the study on schedule. It will also provide $750,000 for... Full story
Ten Years Ago Months of hard work and dedication from the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce culminated last Saturday when it kicked off its first “Balde” Eagle Festival. “I felt it went off well,” Chamber President Tim Alling said. “ I would have liked a few more people, but it was a decent crowd. Students at Nespelem School saw and heard a demonstration by the Lake Roosevelt boys’ basketball team on how to succeed in varsity athletics and life. Seven wrestlers went, and four return... Full story
A grant-funded study will determine the feasibility of each aspect of a community/wellness center for the region following the award of a contract to Gary Leva, director of the Benewah Wellness Center in Plummer, Idaho and principal at the Gary Consulting Group in Spokane. Leva was instrumental in the formation of the community center serving the Plummer, Idaho area and several others. Last summer, a steering committee rekindled a three-year-old effort to establish a community/wellness center in the area. Self-named the Coulee Region Community... Full story
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