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Jul 4, 2018 · The Lake of the Ozarks is one of Missouri's most popular weekend getaways, which is what inspired Dan William Peek and Kent Van Landuyt to publishA People's History of the Lake of the Ozarks a ...
- Suzanne Hogan
Oahe Dam is located near Pierre, S.D. at River Mile 1,072.3. The first of the power house’s seven 89,500-kilovolt generators was put into operation in March 1962. On August 17, 1962, President John F. Kennedy came to the dam and officially dedicated the two generators. The final generator went into operation in June 1963, completing the $340 ...
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Several water-control measures were introduced through the Pick–Sloan legislation that variously affected the Missouri River Valley and its environs. The Pick–Sloan program dams built between 1946 and 1966 are: Canyon Ferry Dam and Lake in Montana. Garrison Dam and Lake Sakakawea in North Dakota.
The first of the Missouri River mainstem dams to be constructed, Fort Peck, in northeastern Montana, had been promoted as a good location for a dam as far back as 1877. An ice gorge that year caused a backup of water a mile up the river, flooding the booming trading post called Fort Peck that also was headquarters for the Milk River Indian Agency.
Sep 1, 2021 · With the onset of the 1930s drought, it became apparent that not even the Bureau-proposed dams would provide enough water in the Missouri to maintain a six-foot deep navigation channel from Sioux City, Iowa, to the mouth. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed in 1932 to build a major dam at Fort Peck, Montana.
Canyon Ferry Dam lies one and one-half miles downstream from the original Canyon Ferry Dam built by the Montana Power Company. Temperatures in the area can drop to -30 degrees and climb to over 90 degrees.1 Historic Setting Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led their famous expedition up the Missouri River and past the Canyon Ferry Dam site in ...
Jun 23, 2012 · The Fort Peck Dam Project was authorized in late 1933 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who hoped it would serve the dual purpose of providing jobs for a Depression-plagued workforce...
