The Nine Mile Falls Dam, built in 1908, was purchased from the Inland Empire Railway and Power Company in 1925., then use the "State and City" link. Fill in "WA" and "Nine Mile Falls".)
This Spokane River project was redeveloped during 1993-1994, upgrading equipment and replacing two of the four vintage turbines.Most of the Nine Mile hydroelectric site is within a National Historic District and the facilities are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Licensed generating capacity: 27 megawatts
- Dam height: 58 feet
- Generating units: 4
(To visit the National Register of Historic Places click here
Small brick cottages, built in the late 1920s, once provided housing for maintenance
and operations personnel at the Nine Mile Project. The cottages were last occupied by
Avista (WWP) personnel in the early 1980s.
The 1,353-acre Little Spokane River Natural Area surrounds the Nine Mile Project site.
The Nine Mile Falls Dam is one of Avista Energy's hydro power sources.
(The information above was obtained from the Avista brochure "Hydropower It's a Natural", printed 8/94)
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