Articles from the July 13, 2014 edition

Jul 13, 2014

From the February 6, 2002 edition of McKenzie River Reflections Cougar Dam tunnel BLUE RIVER: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will remove the last of a 35.5-foot-long concrete plug during the week of February 4 from a diversion tunnel through Cougar Dam. The work is part of the multiple-phase temperature control construction at the dam, which is on the South Fork of the McKenzie River. When Cougar Dam was being built in the 1960s, the diversion tunnel was used to divert river water away from the construction area, giving crews a dry area in...