A look back at public power.(Association News)

Bulletin (Northwest Public Power Association), December, 2007

50 years ago--1957

Benton PUD found roosting herons were causing some power outages (Wash.) ... As of December 31, 1956, the 989 REA borrowers were operating 1,382,737 miles of line to 4,361,896 consumers ... Seattle City Light announced that their journeymen linemen will be making $3.07 per hour in 1958 (Wash.) ... Oregon Senator Richard L. Neuberger told the Portland Izaak Walton League that "the quest for power and flood control must be concentrated in the 'fishless' reaches of the Columbia above Grand coulee for the present, while fish experts are working on problems of maintaining migratory salmon and steelhead runs on the Clearwater and Salmon Rivers."

25 years ago--1982

Bonneville Power Administration installed the world's first...

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