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Significance: The dam and reservoir provide nearly a quarter of the water stored for the Yakima Project, which irrigates the Yakima Valley in central Washington. The valley, while blessed with a greater natural water supply than most arid regions, required an integrated, valley-wide system dependent on stored water in order to realize its agricultural potential. Private irrigation companies lacked the capitol and the engineering expertise to make such an investment in the valley, but the 1902 Newlands Act enabled the U.S. Reclamation Service to do so...