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Libby Dam is a concrete gravity dam in the northwestern United States, on the Kootenai River in northwestern Montana. Dedicated on August 24, 1975, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] it is west of the continental divide , seventeen miles (27 km) upstream from the town of Libby .
Libby is a city in northwestern Montana, United States and the county seat of Lincoln County. [3] The population was 2,775 at the 2020 census. [4]Libby suffered from the area's contamination from nearby vermiculite mines contaminated with particularly fragile asbestos, leading to the town's inclusion in the United States Environmental Protection Agency's National Priorities List status in 2002 ...
Lake Koocanusa (KUU-KAN-USA) is a reservoir in British Columbia and Montana (United States) formed by the damming of the Kootenai River by the Libby Dam in 1972. The Dam was formally dedicated by President Gerald Ford on August 24, 1975. [1] The Koocanusa Bridge over Lake Koocanusa from the east bank.
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The Bear Creek Fire burning in southwest Montana scorched more than 6,000 acres as of Sunday, August 16, fire officials said.The fire, burning near Lemhi Pass at the Idaho-Montana border, was ...
Stretching 130 kilometres (81 mi) south and crossing the US-Canada Border, Lake Koocanusa is formed by Libby Dam east of Libby, Montana. The Kootenai (as it is now named) receives the Fisher River just downstream of the dam and turns west, forming the "Big Bend" around the southern end of the Purcell Mountains and Libby.
A federal jury on Monday said BNSF Railway contributed to the deaths of two people who were exposed to asbestos decades ago when tainted mining material was shipped through a Montana town where ...
The 2018 wildfire season in Montana began around June, 2018 and ended around September, 2018. [ 1 ] The Highway 37 Fire is a fire above Montana Highway 37 west of Libby, Montana at 48°25′19″N 115°28′26″W / 48.422°N 115.474°W / 48.422; -115.474 ( Highway 37 Fire ) , [ 2 ] near a Superfund site which is a former ...