EPHRATA, Wash. (AP) - Enough repairs have been made to the cracked Wanapum Dam to soon allow the reservoir to partially refill. The Grant County Public Utility District said Tuesday the reservoir ...

Wanapum reservoir area won’t open for Memorial Day Tue., May 6, 2014 A sailboat sits on a dry riverbed in front of the Vantage Riverstone Resort on Thursday in Vantage, Wash.

The shoreline was closed after the reservoir was drawn down in response to a fracture found Feb. 27 on the Wanapum Dam spillway. The shoreline is expected to be closed at least through the July ...

After Grant Public Utilities District raised the Wanapum reservoir by 17 feet in December, the utility, the Washington Department of Fish Wildlife and Washington State Parks have reopened it to ...

BEVERLEY — The Columbia River behind Wanapum Dam hit its targeted 17-foot elevation increase 10 days ahead of schedule, but the shoreline remains closed, Grant County PUD officials said Tuesday.

The reservoir drawdown also has affected 11 irrigators on the Wanapum reservoir with surface water withdrawal rights, Allen said. Grant PUD is working with each of them individually on permits and ...

EPHRATA — Repairs to a cracked spillway on the Wanapum Dam have progressed to the point where the reservoir can be refilled to normal levels. The Grant County Public Utility District says the ...

Forensic drilling will start to determine the cause of a 65 foot crack in a dam spillway, and officials scramble to improvise solutions for fish and irrigators affected by reservoir drawdown.

EPHRATA — Enough repairs have been made to the cracked Wanapum Dam to soon allow the reservoir to partially refill. The Grant County Public Utility District said Tuesday the reservoir ...

EPHRATA— Operations could return to normal at Wanapum Dam a little more than a year after a 65-foot-long crack was discovered in its spillway, a Grant County Public Utility District official said.

Operations could return to normal at Wanapum Dam a little more than a year after a 65-foot-long crack was discovered in its spillway, a Grant County Public Utility District official said.