Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | swne - 1/30/2024 11:38
I could be mistaken but I think grain is barged through the locks on those dams down the Snake River to Portland them loaded on ships for export.
Grain from the Dakotas, Plains states, and Midwest is railed all the way to Portland.
If those dams are removed, we will know that stupidity has taken over and there is no more common sense left. Unbelievable if it actually happens but common sense is pretty scarce these days.
Yes, the Snake is navigable with barges all the way Lewiston, ID.
Fun fact: not all of the Midwest grain is railed to the port facilities that load the ocean going ships. Some is transloaded to barges on the Columbia and taken the last hundred or so miles on the river. Portland terminals don’t handle the majority of the grain, it mostly goes through newer terminals nearby.
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Snake river dams?
