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With electricity demand soaring, dams could produce vast quantities of cheap power by harnessing the water flowing through them to turn a turbine: The Grand Coulee Dam, built during the Great Depression atop the Columbia River, generates 21 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, enough to power 2 million homes.

Raised in Coulee City, Grant County, Ewell moved to Seattle shortly after graduating high school in 1973, worked as a dishwasher and a short-order cook, and for a dozen years or so was the caretaker at Progressive Missionary Baptist Church.

One, with tribes in the Upper Columbia region, provides significant funding to explore the reintroduction of salmon above Grand Coulee Dam.

Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to make portions of the upper Columbia River, the 150 miles upstream of Grand Coulee Dam including the vast recreational area known as Lake Roosevelt, a Superfund site.

Air, liquid and slag discharges of heavy metals from the zinc and lead smelter resulted in contamination all the way to the Grand Coulee.