The man who oversaw the construction of what many consider North America’s most impressive feat of civil engineering is considered a trailblazing pioneer of water management. From 1924 to 1936, Elwood ...

How the Grand Coulee Dam and Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake generate clean hydroelectric power for 2 million homes, fueling ...

Of the many public works projects of the New Deal, Grand Coulee Dam loomed largest in America's imagination during the darkest days of the Depression. It promised to fulfill President Franklin ...

Of the many public works projects of the New Deal, Grand Coulee Dam loomed largest in America's imagination during the darkest days of the Depression. It promised to fulfill President Franklin ...

China’s Three Gorges Dam follows the engineering achievements of the Grand Coulee Dam in America. Our research explains every part of the Grand Coulee Dam and shows how its water production creates ...

Frank A. Banks, chief construction engineer of Grand Coulee Dam, was considered the man who "put the Columbia River to work," according to newspaper accounts. He was from New England and heard ...

During the Great Depression, his family moved to Washington State where Bob’s father worked as a carpenter on the Grand Coulee Dam and where Bob graduated from Grand Coulee High School in 1943 ...