Historic Hood River
“N.W.P. Power House on the White Salmon.”
9-10-2025
Notes
This is a good view of the power house which received the water diverted by the Condit Dam. You can see the surge tower which worked to prevent water hammer as the turbine action varied, and the two penstock flumes which carried the water from the dam which is around the corner upstream. We have many photographs of the construction of this facility, as it employed many Hood River men during 1912-1913. This stereocard view looks like it was taken shortly after the facility was completed.
Power from this power house could cross the Columbia at transmission lines near Stanley Rock, augmenting power from the old Powerdale power station on the Hood River.
Category: Klickitat County
Tags: 1910s, Condit Dam, electricity, Northwest Power Company, penstock flume, power plant, White Salmon River
Tags: 1910s, Condit Dam, electricity, Northwest Power Company, penstock flume, power plant, White Salmon River
L. E.
The original purpose of this dam was to supply power to the paper mill in Camas, WA.
I find it hard to believe they could manage to maintain a power line running along the north bank to Camas in the winter time.
There was enough surplus power, they ran a line across the Columbia from Camas to Portland.