It wasn’t easy for people to give up their homes and land when the Siskiyou Electric Power and Light Co. chose Ward Canyon on the Klamath River in Northern California as the site of COPCO Dam No. 1.The canyon offered a perfect dam site where the river cut through an ancient anthracite rock wall topped with basalt more than 200 feet high and only 75 feet wide.The idyllic but isolated valley upriver from the canyon was not heavily populated, but the people who lived there [...]
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