ABSTRACT
The International Columbia River Engineering Board identified several good sites: Arrow Lakes, Mica Creek, Dorr, Luxor, Bull River, and Duncan, all in British Columbia; and Libby, in Montana, but with headwaters extending into British Columbia. A comprehensive analysis involving a comparison of the difference in present worth of the value of power contributed by only the economic projects participating in each of the alternatives was not undertaken by the International Columbia River Engineering Board. The alternative basic plan, also with possibility of variation, would involve a system of works in which the flows of the upper Kootenay would be diverted into the headwaters of the Columbia near the vicinity of Canal Flats. Since, in 1960, existing development on the Columbia was known to be deficient in storage capacity, projects with storage were of most immediate concern to the negotiators of the Columbia River Treaty.
