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Northwoods Trek Park
Name: Chocolate Mousse
Photograph by: Jerry Buck

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Northwoods Trek Park
Name: Chocolate Mousse
Photograph by: Jerry Buck

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Northwest Trek
Moose Name: Chocolate Mousse
Photo by Bruce A. Kellman

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Norwegian Independence Day
Photograph by Jerry Buck

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Norwegian Independence Day

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Norwegian Festival

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Thermal Power--Hanford

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Washington Public Power Supply System

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--Nuclear Project no. 2--
The image of the No. 2 nuclear project of the Washington Public Power Supply System at Hanford is reflected on the surface of an adjoining spray pond, one of two comprising a back-up safety cooling system. Each pond contains 7 1/2-million gallons of water. Pillars on the circular structure in the foreground hold the nozzles to spray water into the air which would be cooled by evaporation as it falls back into the pond.
Official Photo
Washington Public Power Supply System

A cartoon credited to Frank Shiers Jr. Five people wearing business suits examine plans spread out on a desk. The office door says "Energy Dept."

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At its peak, population at the Hanford Site swelled to 51,00, making it one of the largest construction camps in the world. Between 1943 - 45, 130 barracks, 900 temporary buildings and 4,300 trailers were built. Eighty tons of food were served each day in the eight mess halls.
Westinghouse Hanford Company photo

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White Bluffs Then
An unidentified man stands before a gas station in White Bluffs, Washington in this early undated photo. Along with Hanford, White Bluffs was purchased and obliterated by the federal government in 1943 to make room for the Manhattan Projects' plutonium plants to develop the atomic bomb. The desert-line terrain was considered virtually worthless by project planners.

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Demolished Town
The empty shell of the old Hanford High School is the largest remaining sign of the farm town of Hanford, WA., which was demolished along with White Bluffs to make way for nuclear weapons plants near the Columbia River fifty years ago March 6th. Hanford's name lives on as the moniker of the sprawling Hanford nuclear reservation in southeastern Washington. Wartime urgency doomed the towns.
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Thermal Power--Hanford

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Thermal Power--Hanford

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Atomic Power Plant--Hanford

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Thermal Power Plant--Hanford

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Thermal Power Plant--Hanford
WPPSS plant #1 at Hanford has been mothballed.
Photo by Bruce Kellman

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Thermal Power Plant--Hanford

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Washington Public Power Supply System

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Washington Public Power Supply System

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Oil Skimmer for Commencement Bay
Belt in Middle Scoops Up Oil and Debris

Commencement Bay received an oil skimmer rig to fight oil spills. The skimmer can hold up to 880 gallons of oil and uses the belt in the middle of the rig to pick up oil and debris. The skimmer can hold the oil for about 98 percent of the oil spills that occur in Puget Sound, and it is run by the Marine Oil Pickup Service (MOPS) of Seattle.

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As early evening moves into dusk....
19-year-old Tacoma resident Janine Absten (right) and 19-year-old Sean Brown (Tacoma) light candles as part of a protest (and vigil) that was joined by 150 others at Owen Beach this evening. The group was concerned by the recent oil spill in Alaska and spent the time discussing the issues surrounding the incident and voicing feelings thereof. The group, with many families and children present created no problems for park officials who earlier were concerned that the protest might grow out of hand, possibly resulting in damages. After the gathering members left the park.
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Gordon/News

40 Mallard ducks used to paddle Fife’s Wapato Creek had to paddle in a kitchen sink instead. Volunteer Chris Wells scrubbed one of the ducks affected by the oil spill in the creek. All ducks were expected to recover. The spill was blamed on vandals who were believed to have tampered with the storage tanks at the Old Valley Packing Co. recently purchased by the Milwaukee Railroad. Photo by staff member Bruce Kellman.

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Duck
Photograph by Jerry Buck

A cooperative of 14 oil pipeline and marine companies placed a 58-foot oil recovery vessel called the Clean Sounder into service. They claim it is the largest and most advanced skimmer in the country. The Clean Sounder cost $720,000 and was built by the Marine Construction and Design Co. of Seattle. The vessel should be able to pick up 600 gallons of oil per minute. The boat's purpose is to increase the capacity of the Clean Sound Cooperative to handle accidental oil spills in the Sound. It joined four other skimming vessels in Seattle, Tacoma, Bellingham, and Anacortes. The skimmer has twin hulls and is powered by water jet propulsion units. The skimmer used two oil attracting belts to pick up oil from the surface, and that oil is squeezed from the belts and stored aboard. The vessel was designed specifically for Puget Sound.

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Clean Sounder

A spill from U.S. Oil and Refining Co. on the Blair Waterway resulted in oil swirling around Sea-Tac Alaska Shipbuilding Corp. drydock where a U.S. Coast Guard vessel was being worked on. The oil spill also contaminated part of Commencement Bay and was cleaned up by the U.S. Coast Guard. Photo by staff member Warren Anderson.

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Anacortes Barge
A worker atop the oil barge in Puget Sound signals to others on the crane platform as the barge is being lifted to the surface Monday afternoon.
Carrie Robertson/photo
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