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  2. Fort Peck Dam - Wikipedia

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    The Fort Peck Dam is the highest of six major dams along the Missouri River, located in northeast Montana in the United States, near Glasgow, and adjacent to the community of Fort Peck. At 21,026 feet (6,409 m) in length and over 250 feet (76 m) in height, it is the largest hydraulically filled dam in the United States, and creates Fort Peck ...

  3. 2011 Missouri River Flood - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Report on June 18, 2011, predicting that 54,600,000 acre-feet (67.3 km 3) of run off would occur above Sioux City in 2011 -- the most in the history of record keeping on the river. It tops the record flow of 49,000,000 acre-feet (60 km 3) in 1997.

  4. Fort Peck Lake - Wikipedia

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    Fort Peck Lake. Fort Peck Lake, or Lake Fort Peck, is a major reservoir in Montana, formed by the Fort Peck Dam on the Missouri River. The lake lies in the eastern prairie region of Montana approximately 140 miles (230 km) east of Great Falls and 120 miles (190 km) north of Billings, reaching into portions of six counties.

  5. List of photographs considered the most important - Wikipedia

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    Fort Peck Dam: 1936 Margaret Bourke-White: Fort Peck, Montana, United States [s 2] [s 3] See article The Falling Soldier: 1936 Robert Capa: Espejo, Spain The photograph depicts the death of Republican soldier Federico Borrell García in the Spanish Civil War. [42] [s 1] [s 2] [s 3] [s 5]

  6. Pick–Sloan Missouri Basin Program - Wikipedia

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    The Fort Randall Dam flooded 221,497 acres (89,637 ha) of Indigenous land and 220,478 acres (89,224 ha) were inundated by the Big Bend Dam. [8] In South Dakota, politicians and other proponents of the Pick-Sloan Program and dam construction had promised 1 million acres (4.0 × 10 ^ 3 km 2 ) of irrigation as “appropriate compensation” for ...

  7. Public Works Administration - Wikipedia

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    Public Works Administration Project and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructing Bonneville Dam in Oregon. The Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was created by the National Industrial ...

  8. File:Fort Peck Dam (Fort Peck Montana) 1986 01.jpg - Wikipedia

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  9. Dams in distress: Partial failure in Minnesota offers a ...

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    The partial failure of Minnesota’s Rapidan Dam sheds like on the almost 4,100 dams in the U.S. that are categorized at the same risk level and condition – or worse.