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🎸"BUILT TO LAST"🎶

THE ALBUM YOU NEVER KNEW YOU NEEDED (BUT CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT)

🔥 12 tracks of pure hydropower-fueled, lock-and-dam greatness! 🔥

💥 Featuring instant classics like:
✅ “Locks and the Line” – Because nothing says "banger" like smooth navigation and barge traffic.
✅ “Flood Fighters” – The only rap song about levees that goes harder than the storms they hold back.
✅ “Granite Will Rise” – Punk rock, but for engineers.
✅ “Rivers of Fury” – Metal so heavy it could reinforce a dam.

📢 WARNING: May cause sudden urges to visit a fish ladder or calculate turbine efficiency.

💡 Stream now! Support the hardest-working dams in the music industry. 💡

1. To Serve and Empower

The Walla Walla District serves and empowers communities through flood risk management, hydropower, navigation, and environmental stewardship.

2. Locks and the Line

Snake River locks are vital for navigation, moving over 3 million tons of goods annually, including grain, timber, and petroleum products. Fact Check: one barge = 35 railway hopper cars = 135 semi-trucks.

3. Horizontes Claros

The Walla Walla District protects natural resources, ensuring safe fish passage and preserving ecosystems across 107,000 square miles in the Pacific Northwest. The District’s Fish Transportation System transports 15-22 million juvenile fish via truck or barge to the Pacific Ocean each year.

4. Flood Fighters

Flood risk management projects like Mill Creek and Bennington Lake have saved lives and prevented millions in flood damages since their construction. All of the district’s flood risk management efforts combined are estimated to prevent $300-$450 million in damages annually.

5. River of Power

Ice Harbor and McNary dams produce clean, renewable energy, powering nearly 700,000 homes annually across the Pacific Northwest.

6. Steelhead Dreams

The Walla Walla District supports endangered salmon and steelhead migration with innovative fish ladders and bypass systems.

7. Granite Will Rise

Lower Granite Dam plays a key role in hydropower, navigation, and fish migration, ensuring safe passage for over 4 million juvenile salmon annually. Innovative fish passage efforts afford passage via spill, surface and bypass systems.

8. The People’s Power

The Walla Walla District generates sustainable energy and facilitates commerce, powering the nation while protecting natural resources. The district’s six hydroelectric dams produce approximately 5,000 megawatts of energy annually, enough to power 4.2 million homes.

9. Rivers of Fury

Mill Creek’s levees and dams stand strong, providing critical flood control and protecting communities from severe water events since 1942. In all, the District maintains 178 miles of federal and non-federal levees.

10. Snake River Sunsets

Little Goose’s Lake Bryan and other reservoirs managed by the Walla Walla District offer premier recreation, from fishing and camping to wildlife observation. The District’s recreation opportunities include eight reservoirs and 37 recreation areas, which allow for eight million visitors a year.

11. Turbine Dreams

Advanced turbines at Ice Harbor and McNary dams increase power efficiency by 4% while improving fish survival rates in the Snake River system. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ largest hydropower generator is located at Dworshak Dam, where it’s capable of generating 253 megawatts.

12. Empower Me

Through innovation and dedication, the Walla Walla District builds infrastructure that empowers communities and inspires future generations. Civil Works boundaries generally follow the Snake River drainage, which includes six states (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, and Utah).