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Ryan Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Missouri River, 10 miles (16 km) downstream from the city of Great Falls in the U.S. state of Montana.The dam is 1,336 feet (407 m) long and 61 feet (19 m) high; its reservoir is 7 miles (11 km) long and has a storage capacity of 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3).
Big Falls (also called Great Falls or Roar of Steam [1]) is a major waterfall located on the Missouri River in western Montana in the United States.It is the lowermost and largest of the Great Falls of the Missouri, at 87 feet (27 m) high and up to 900 feet (270 m) wide at peak flow.
Rainbow Falls was dammed in 1910 when Rainbow Dam was built. [12] [48] [65] The reservoir behind the dam submerged Colter Falls. [12] [48] Volta Dam was built on top of the Great Falls in 1915, and later renamed Ryan Dam in 1940 in honor of John D. Ryan, the president and founder of the Montana Power Company. [12] [66]
The dam is named after John G. Morony, [5] a banker, director of the Amalgamated Copper Company (a forerunner of the Anaconda Copper Company), and director of the Montana Power Company. (Morony was largely responsible for constructing Ryan Dam .) [ 6 ] Morony Dam was built by the Phoenix Utility Company. [ 7 ]
Canyon Ferry Dam: MT: Canyon Ferry Lake: 225 69 1,973,000 2.434 50 Hauser Dam: MT: Hauser Lake: 80 24 98,000 0.121 19 Holter Dam: MT: Holter Lake: 124 38 243,000 0.300 48 Black Eagle Dam: MT: Long Pool 13 4 2,000 0.002 21 Rainbow Dam: MT: 29 9 1,000 0.001 36 Cochrane Dam: MT: 59 18 3,000 0.004 64 Ryan Dam: MT: 61 19 5,000 0.006 60 Morony Dam ...
Dec. 15—Newly leaked settlement documents revealing that the Biden Administration would consider the removal of four lower Snake River dams has drawn public scrutiny from Flathead Electric ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Montana. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
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