File:DETAIL VIEW OF WATER TANKS ON ROCK ISLAND, LOOKING NORTH - Swan Falls Dam, Snake River, Kuna, Ada County, ID HAER ID,37-KU.V,1-9.tif

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DETAIL VIEW OF WATER TANKS ON ROCK ISLAND, LOOKING NORTH - Swan Falls Dam, Snake River, Kuna, Ada County, ID
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DETAIL VIEW OF WATER TANKS ON ROCK ISLAND, LOOKING NORTH - Swan Falls Dam, Snake River, Kuna, Ada County, ID
Depicted place Idaho; Ada County; Kuna
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER ID,37-KU.V,1-9
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  • Significance: Swan Falls Dam was the first hydroelectric dam on Snake River in Idaho, and one of the earliest built in the Pacific Northwest. A.J. Wiley, a brilliant western irrigation engineer and an early assistant of engineer Arthur D. Foote, designed the project. The dam was built to supply power for the operation of gold mines in Silver City, Idaho, which has long previously run out of wood for fuel. It soon supplied power for Silver City, Nampa, Caldwell, and other Idaho towns. The Idaho Power Company, which acquired the dam in 1916 during a major consolidation of southern Idaho power companies in receivership, expanded the capacity of the dam and added new equipment in two phases. Swan Falls was used as a training assignment for new engineers in the Idaho Power Company system because of the variety of manually-operated equipment at this site, including generators installed in 1918. Because the water rights for the dam were never subordinated to those of future irrigation projects upstream, Swan Falls was the focus of a major conflict in water use and water rights in Idaho during the 1970s and 1980s, the resolution of which had profoundly altered the course of economic development and water use in southern Idaho.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2
  • Survey number: HAER ID-20
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/id0150.photos.059857p
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Object location43° 29′ 30.98″ N, 116° 25′ 09.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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