Work set on $56M PF Dam rehabilitation
A model of the Post Falls Dam's North Channel is on display Wednesday as Avista project manager Greg Crossman, at the lectern, provides information on the rehabilitation work that is about to begin to modernize the 118-year-old historic facility.
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Kim Brown asks a question Wednesday evening about preserving artifacts from the 118-year-old Post Falls Dam North Channel as she and husband Lew Brown attend an open house on Avista's rehabilitation project of the facility, which will begin this spring.
POST FALLS — It's been nearly 50 years since any major work has been done on Avista's Hydroelectric Development North Channel Dam, originally constructed 118 years ago on the Spokane River.
Crews will soon begin rehabilitating the spillway, a project that is estimated to cost $56 million.
“It’s old, a lot of the equipment’s original from the 1906 construction," Avista project manager Greg Crossman said.
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