Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Early Reclamation engineers were based in Odessa
Work on the Grand Coulee Dam began in 1933, but it wasn’t until after World War II that the Columbia Basin project was realized and the area bloomed with irrigated crops.
Even as early as 1936, however, engineers were beginning surveys of the Basin, platting the farmland which would flourish and eventually transform the sleepy village of Neppel into a bustling commercial and distribution center called Moses Lake.
Other towns, then all smaller than Odessa, were to benefit and grow as a result of the project-- Ephrata, Quincy, Othello, Warden and Soap Lake.
Sixty-seven years ago, Bureau of Recla...
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