If the four lower Snake River dams are breached, drawing down the four
reservoirs would expose about 14,000 acres of land and create a new 140-mile
long river corridor. For now, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says in
a real estate study, it will retain most of that land.
The Corps purchased the land between 1955 and 1979 while constructing
Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose, and Lower Granite Dams. However,
in anticipation of building the dams, the purchase was authorized ten …
