Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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Cougar holds back 70 billion gallons Willamette flood By Tom Conning USACE Public Affairs Office BLUE RIVER: Roughly 70 billion gallons of water flows over Niagara Falls every 24 hours and the same amount sits ominously behind Cougar Dam. If Cougar were to completely fail, that water would rush 60 miles down the McKenzie River, washing away everything in its path, until it reached the Eugene and Springfield area. The deluge could make Eugene and Springfield look like Corvallis, Oregon City and Portland after the Flood of 1996; although no dams...
