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  2. Pick–Sloan Missouri Basin Program - Wikipedia

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    It was proposed with a budget of $1.26 billion. [3] The Sloan plan pushed for reservoir storage in upper tributaries of the Missouri River located in smaller dams, which would provide irrigation for 4.8 million acres in areas where the land suffered from drought. [2] The Sloan plan allotted 1.3 million acres of irrigated land in North Dakota.

  3. Cedar Bluff Reservoir - Wikipedia

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    In response, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation began investigating the Smoky Hill River basin in 1941 to determine what would be feasible, but the outbreak of World War II halted the effort. The Flood Control Act of 1944 authorized the creation of Cedar Bluff Reservoir as part of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, and investigations resumed in ...

  4. Flood Control Act of 1944 - Wikipedia

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    The Lakota, Dakota and Nakota tribes lost 202,000 acres (820 km 2). The Three Affiliated Tribes, specifically, lost 155,000 acres (630 km 2) in their Fort Berthold Reservation due to the building of the Garrison Dam. The project caused more than 1,500 Native Americans to relocate from the river bottoms of the Missouri river due to the flooding. [4]

  5. Davis Creek Dam - Wikipedia

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    The earthen dam was completed in 1991 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation with a height of 153 feet (47 m) and 2,900 feet (880 m) long at its crest. [1] It impounds Davis Creek for flood control, part of the North Loup Division of the Bureau's extensive Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program. The dam is owned by the Bureau and is operated by ...

  6. Big Bend Dam - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. List of dams in the Missouri River watershed - Wikipedia

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    Map showing the Missouri River basin Garrison Dam, which forms Lake Sakakawea, the largest reservoir on the Missouri River. This is a list of dams in the watershed of the Missouri River, a tributary of the Mississippi River, in the United States. There are an estimated 17,200 dams and reservoirs in the basin, most of which are small, local ...

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  9. Fort Peck Lake - Wikipedia

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    Following severe flooding along the Missouri River in 1943, which hampered the economic development of the Missouri River Valley and damaged production of military supplies for then-ongoing World War II, five additional dams were added when the federal government adopted the Pick-Sloan Plan, calling for a series of dams and reservoirs to be built along the Missouri and its tributaries. [4]