Did You Know

Did you know the Columbia Basin Project supports over 10,000 farms?

Did you know the Columbia Basin Project (CBP) generates over 13,000 jobs, three million recreational visits, and 10,000 farms that produce foods we consume daily? The fruits and vegetables grown make ...

01 May, 2022

Did you know irrigation water for thousands of farms in Washington state is pumped from Lake Roosevelt?

Banks Lake, an important man-made reservoir within the Columbia Basin Project (CBP), was created in the early 1950s near Grand Coulee Dam.  Damming both ends of the Upper Grand Coulee resulted in crea...

01 February, 2022

Did you know that the first land irrigated by the Columbia Basin Project was made possible by a pumping plant?

At the time the Columbia Basin Project (CBP) was being conceived, pumping irrigation water to a destination was almost inconceivable, but the topography of the Columbia Basin meant gravity-fed irrigat...

01 January, 2022