Celilo Canal

Celilo Canal
Celilo Canal in 1910; the Columbia River is visible at left.
Specifications
Maximum boat beam	65 ft 0 in (19.8 m)
Status	inundated by Lake Celilo formed by The Dalles Dam
History
Principal engineer	Army Engineers[1]
Construction began	1905
Date of first use	May 15, 1915
Date closed	1957

Celilo Canal was a canal in Oregon connecting two points of the Columbia River, just east of The Dalles.

In the natural state of the Columbia River, there was an 8-mile (13 km) stretch from The Dalles to Celilo Falls that was impassable upstream and navigable downstream only at high water and at great risk. Celilo Canal was built in the early part of the 1900s to allow steamboat and river-borne traffic to bypass that stretch.