Grand Coulee Dam for the upper Columbia River and Snake River and in 1932, his 1,000-page report was submitted to Congress. It recommended the Grand Coulee Dam and nine others on the river, including some in Canada. The report stated electricity sales from the Grand Coulee Dam could pay for construction costs. Reclamation—whose interest in the dam was revitalized by the report—endorsed it. Although there was support for the Grand Coulee Dam, others argued there was little need for more electricity in the Northwest and crops were in surplus. The Army Corps did not believe construction should be a federal project and saw
Grand Coulee wide as Niagara Falls and three times as high. Steamboat Rock high and a in area, now stands as an isolated rise, but for a time it created two cataract. When the falls passed north of Steamboat Rock, it found a granite base beneath the basal flows. Granite lacks the close vertical joints of basalt, was resisted the erosion from the cataract's plunge. It remains as hills on the broad floor of the Coulee. Some gravel-bar deposits are visible along the Route 155. They provide evidence of eddies in the lee of rock shoulders. Dry Falls is at the head