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Archive Home > 2008 > November > 13 > Past meets present

Past meets present

Oregon’s mighty John Day River’s power harnessed by hydroelectric dam

By Jim Witty / The Bulletin
November 13, 2008

It’s a little ironic that the first thing you see at the mouth of the John Day, the state’s longest free-flowing river, is a dam.

A big one at that, making a lake of the mighty Columbia and the lower nine miles of the John Day.

These days, the mouth of the John Day River is....

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