DTIC ADA036761: The Willamette Basin Comprehensive Study pdf

DTIC ADA036761: The Willamette Basin Comprehensive Study

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The Navigation Appendix relies upon supporting data contained in the Study Area, Hydrology, and Economic Base Appendices. There has also been an interchange of pertinent information between this and other appendices, particularly Appendix K – Recreation, and Appendix M – Plan Formulation. The data in this appendix provide the background for the navigation aspects of the main report. Navigation has been a part of the history of Willamette Basin since the earliest days of exploration and settlement. As time passed, the use of waterways for transportation changed progressively, influenced by the ever-expanding population, improvements in vessels, changing import and export cargoes, and the expansion of land-based transportation. The sea route to Willamette Valley was discovered in 1792. Captain Robert Gray, an American sea captain in search of furs for the China trade, located the mouth of Columbia River, and in the same year, Lieutenant William R. Broughton, under command of Captain George Vancouver of the British Navy, explored Columbia River in a small boat up to Vancouver Point, a few miles above the mouth of the Willamette

• Creator/s: Defense Technical Information Center
• Date: 1/1/1969
• Year: 1969
• Book Topics/Themes: DTIC Archive, , PACIFIC NORTHWEST RIVER BASINS COMMISSION VANCOUVER WASH, *TRANSPORTATION, *ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, *WATER RESOURCES, RAILROADS, COMMERCE, HAZARDS, TRAFFIC, NAVIGATION, PLANNING, RIVERS, LAND USE, AIR TRANSPORTATION, HARBORS, BASINS(GEOGRAPHIC), BARGES, TANKER SHIPS, OREGON, INLAND WATERWAYS, TRAFFICABILITY

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