Spokane Falls
by Robert Bales
Title
Spokane Falls
Artist
Robert Bales
Medium
Photograph - Photo
Description
Each spring the Spokane River thunders through the heart of downtown Spokane. Bridges shake. Neighboring walkways shimmer with wetness. Flows can reach upwards of 31,000 cubic feet per second—that’s the equivalent of nearly 232,000 thousand gallons of water racing through a single square foot of the Spokane River in the blink of an eye.
But when you’re looking down from the footbridges at the roaring rapids below, statistics may be the last thing on your mind. The river has an awe-inspiring quality that transcends numbers.
The falls consists of an Upper Falls and a Lower Falls. The Upper Falls is the site of the Upper Falls Dam, a diversion dam constructed in 1920 that directs the water into the Upper Falls intake on the south channel of the Spokane River. The Upper Falls Power Plant incorporates a Francis turbine capable of generating 10 MW. The Lower Falls is the site of a second diversion dam, the Monroe Street Dam. Completed in 1890, it was the first dam built on the Spokane River and is currently the longest-running hydroelectric generation facility in Washington state. Its Kaplan turbine has a generating capacity of 14.82 MW.
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June 6th, 2018
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Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic photographic art has been chosen as a Camera Art! You are invited to archive your work in the Features Archive thread! group as well as any other thread in which it would fit!
Toni Hopper
Congratulations on your image feature on the home page of the HDR Photography group, June 7, 2018. Feel free to archive it in the discussion for the group for features this month. Fantastic capture! Spokane and Washington state is a photographer's paradise. Love the PNW!
Kelley Freel-Ebner
Congratulations! Your extraordinary work has been Featured in the Fine Art America group “The Earth Is Art”! You are invited to archive your featured image for permanent storage and for viewing on the Discussions Page in: “2018 Member's Extraordinary Features Images Archive 3.0!” theme. Simply copy your image’s Embed URL on your image’s profile page, and paste it into the Discussion Topic site: https://fineartamerica.com/groups/the-earth-is-art-.html?showmessage=true&messageid=4138611
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