Chief Joseph Dam is located 545 miles upstream from the mouth of the Columbia River in
Central Washington. It is not unusual for the Chief Joseph project to have 100 breaker
operations in a day.
27 Main Unit Generators
2 Station Service Generators
Total capacity of 2069 MW
19 spillway gates
At least 28 SoftPLC’s
Over 3,500 MTL I/O points
At least 6 Intellution SCADA PC’s. Operator View Node multi-monitor
support (1-4 monitors standard per PC).