Historic Hood River
Dangerous Job
9-9-2026
Notes
This image from April 1931 shows a worker clearing debris snagged at the Copper Dam of the Powerdale hydroelectric project. He does have a rope wrapped around his waist with some rigging, but standing on that root ball with logs jammed up against it at the edge of the floodgate doesn’t seem like the safest place to be.
Roger Sheldrake
That’s just ridiculous! I’d take my chances with the banana extract from yesterday.
L.E.
Looks like there might be something going on, on the other side of the concrete wall. Looking at the log on top of the wall…..is that how high the water rose?
I wonder what L&I thinks of it.