The Columbia Basin Project’s past and present

by WSM staff

Visit the websites below to read more about the Columbia Basin Project, its past, and its potential.

Bureau of Reclamation’s Columbia Basin Project website

Bureau of Reclamation’s website on Odessa Subarea

Columbia Institute for Water Policy on Odessa aquifers

Center for Environmental Law and Policy on the Columbia Basin Project

University of Idaho Library digital photo archives of the Columbia Basin Project

Washington Department of Ecology’s Office of Columbia River

Columbia Basin Development League

Soap Lake Siphon — Man stands on the Soap Lake Siphon during the construction of the Columbia Basin Project (Courtesy University of Idaho Library)

Farmer in the 50s on the Columbia Basin Project — Farmer works a ditch around his field on the Columbia Basin Project (Courtesy University of Idaho Library)

Read more about the Columbia Basin Project in “Water to the Promised Land.”