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HB751494
Slacking Tower North Side, View To The South-southwest
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HB751495
Slacking Tower South Side, View To The North-northeast.
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LocationSouth bank of Clark Fork River at Noxon Rapids,
Noxon, MT
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER MT-105-B
Significance: The tower is locally important because of its influence, along with the associated Noxon Rapids Hydroelectric Development, on the local environment, landscape and economy. It was integral to the maintenance of the Noxon Rapids tailrace prior to the installation of the slack line cableway. The tower is also important in the history of the Washington Water Power Company, now Avista Corporation. The slacking tower represents late 1950s state of the art technology, now obsolete and soon to be replaced and upgraded with 1990s technology.
Subjects
Towers
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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Photograph caption(s):
1. Slacking Tower north side, view to the south-southwest. The tower was used for dredging the river downstream of the powerhouse.
2. Slacking Tower south side, view to the north-northeast.
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