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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 ...
Lake Sharpe is a large reservoir impounded by Big Bend Dam on the Missouri River in central South Dakota, United States. The lake has an area of 56,884 acres (230.20 km 2) and a maximum depth of 78 ft (24 m). [1] Lake Sharpe is approximately 80 mi (130 km) long, with a shoreline of 200 mi (320 km). [1]
Big Bend Dam: SD: Lake Sharpe: 95 29 1,910,000 2.356 493 Fort Randall Dam: SD: Lake Francis Case: 165 50 5,700,000 7.031 320 Gavins Point Dam: NE SD: Lewis and Clark ...
The town is located adjacent to the Big Bend Dam, which holds back Big Bend Reservoir (also known as Lake Sharpe), one of the four Missouri Mainstem reservoirs constructed by the US Army Corps of Engineers in the Pick-Sloan Plan. Authorized in 1944 for flood control and hydropower, the dam and lake were completed in the 1960s.
The Big Bend is a large meander of the Missouri River in South Dakota, now impounded by the Big Bend Dam, 7 miles (11 km) to its south, as part of Lake Sharpe. The meander is about 22 miles (35 km) long and at its narrowest, its neck is about 3,440 feet (1.05 km) wide.
Big Bend Ranch State Park, is located just west of Big Bend National Park. It's the largest state park in Texas, spanning more than 300,000 acres of Brewster and Presidio counties.
After four years, Seitz Park in South Bend is expected to return to public use in 2023. It's been closed since 2019 for construction of a power plant. Notre Dame's hydroelectric project wrapping up.
It acquired property on the Lower Brule Indian Reservation for two dam projects: 7,997 acres of Indian land for the Fort Randall Dam project and 14,299 acres for the Big Bend Dam project. [4] In 1963, the Big Bend Dam on the Missouri River was completed by the Army Corps of Engineers. The operation of the dam caused flooding of the Lower Brule ...