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Big Bend Dam is a major embankment rolled-earth dam on the Missouri River in Central South Dakota, United States, creating Lake Sharpe. The dam was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as part of the Pick-Sloan Plan for Missouri watershed development authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1944. Construction began in 1959 and the ...
Pierre, South Dakota is near the bottom of the photo; Chamberlain, South Dakota is near the top. Dam height: 245 feet (75 m) Dam volume of earth fill: 92,000,000 cubic yards (70,000,000 m³) Dam volume of concrete: 1,122,000 cubic yards (858,000 m³) Spillway width: 456 feet (139 m) Spillway crest elevation: 1,596.5 feet (486.6 m)
The Crow Creek site, designated 39BF11 under the Smithsonian site numbering system, is located along the Missouri River in central South Dakota. The site is located on lands now under the control of the US Army Corps of Engineers due to its flood control and other projects on the river.
With a disaster rivaling the 2011 Missouri River Flood in her home state, Gov. Kristi Noem is making time to fly for out-of-state appearances at GOP campaign events.
The flooding first impacted eastern South Dakota communities in mid-June and officially lasted until July 8. The National Weather Service called the rains that induced the flooding "a 1,000-year ...
That's what South Dakota's legislative body did in 2012: After the 2011 flood washed over the eastern half of the state, and a wave of the invasive mountain pine beetle desiccated the Black Hills ...
A swath through Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota has been under siege from flooding because of torrential rains since last week, while also suffering through a scorching heat wave. Up to 18 inches (46 centimeters) of rain have fallen in some areas, pushing some rivers to record levels.
Pick carefully wrote his plan to avoid flooding Bismarck and Williston, North Dakota, along with Pierre and Chamberlain, South Dakota, but intentionally flooded the entire productive acreage of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, some 155,000 acres, supporting 349 families of 1,544 individuals.