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English: Construction of the Grand Coulee Dam.
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Source http://www.bpa.gov/Power/pl/columbia/gallery/gc-b-3.jpg
Author U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
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In order to divert the Columbia River water and expose the river bed, engineers had to freeze the underlying river bottom in order to support the heavy equipment and concrete forms necessary to construct and place the dam's superstructure.

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8 March 1938

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