id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3112 Columbia River - Wikipedia .html text/html 18734 2117 76 Water depths have been estimated at 1,000 feet (300 m) at Wallula Gap[33] and 400 feet (120 m) over modern Portland, Oregon.[34] Sediments were also deposited when the floodwaters slowed in the broad flats of the Quincy, Othello, and Pasco Basins.[32] The floods' periodic inundation of the lower Columbia River Plateau deposited rich sediments; 21st-century farmers in the Willamette Valley "plow fields of fertile Montana soil and clays from Washington's Palouse".[33] To the west and southwest the Columbia watershed borders a number of smaller watersheds that drain to the Pacific Ocean, such as the Klamath River in Oregon and California and the Puget Sound Basin in Washington.[192] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3112.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3112.txt