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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 ).
All reservoirs in Montana should be included in this category. The main article for this category is List of dams and reservoirs in Montana; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Reservoirs in Montana; See also category Lakes of Montana
There are at least 3,223 named lakes and reservoirs in Montana.The following list contains lists of lakes and reservoirs in Montana by county. A lake is a terrain feature (or physical feature), a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the bottom of basin (another type of landform or terrain feature; that is not global).
List of dams and reservoirs in Montana; B. Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area; Black Eagle Dam; C. Canyon Ferry Dam; Clark Canyon Dam; Cochrane Dam; Como Dam ...
Como Dam (National Inventory of Dams ID MT00564) is a dam in Ravalli County, Montana, in the far western part of the state.. Como Dam was originally constructed by local farmers around 1910, to impound a natural lake for irrigation storage; the United States Bureau of Reclamation enhanced and stabilized that structure in 1954, in 1976, and in 1992-1993.
The dam and reservoir are owned and operated by the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. The 12-mile-long (19 km) riverine reservoir it creates has a normal water surface of 5.5 square miles (14 km 2), a maximum capacity of 150,000 acre-feet (190,000,000 m 3), and normal storage of 69,400 acre-feet (85,600,000 m 3). [2]
Canyon Ferry Lake is a reservoir on the Missouri River near Helena, Montana and Townsend, Montana.It is Montana's third largest body of water, covering 35,181 acres (142 km 2) and 76 miles (122 km) of shore .
In order to make way for the dam, the town of Rexford was relocated and a new Flathead Railroad Tunnel was dug. [4] Construction began in 1966, [6] and the reservoir was available for filling in mid-1973. [4] The dam is operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and at full capacity, it can pass over 160,000 cubic feet per second (4,500 m 3 /s