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Libby Dam is a concrete gravity dam in the northwestern United States, on the Kootenai River in northwestern Montana. Dedicated on August 24, 1975, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] it is west of the continental divide , seventeen miles (27 km) upstream from the town of Libby .
Lake Koocanusa (KUU-KAN-USA) is a reservoir in British Columbia and Montana (United States) formed by the damming of the Kootenai River by the Libby Dam in 1972. The Dam was formally dedicated by President Gerald Ford on August 24, 1975. [1] The Koocanusa Bridge over Lake Koocanusa from the east bank.
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 ).
Agriculture, however, is a much less important industry, and many of the fertile riverside lands have been flooded by the construction of dams (most notably Libby Dam in Montana, which backs water into Canada). Only about two percent of the entire Kootenay basin (1,005 square kilometres (388 sq mi) is used for agriculture, and much of that is ...
Libby is a city in northwestern Montana, United States and the county seat of Lincoln County. [3] The population was 2,775 at the 2020 census. [4]Libby suffered from the area's contamination from nearby vermiculite mines contaminated with particularly fragile asbestos, leading to the town's inclusion in the United States Environmental Protection Agency's National Priorities List status in 2002 ...
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 ...
Libby Dam; Lower Two Medicine Dam; M. ... Willow Creek Dam (Montana) Y. Yellowtail Dam This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 10:26 ...
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