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Old 01-26-2020, 08:02 PM   #37 (permalink)
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The big Columbia River dams don't have that much height to them, you can have height, or you can have volume.
Grand Coulee Dam looks deceptively short simply because it's so massive. But according to the National Park Service it is 550 feet high and just under a mile wide. I've stopped there before; I would not have guessed those dimensions even after seeing it in person.
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