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The Koocanusa Bridge over Lake Koocanusa from the east bank. The lake is formed north of the dam, reaching 48 miles (77 km) to the Canada–United States border and 42 miles (68 km) further into British Columbia. The lake holds 13% of the water in the Columbia River system. The town of Rexford was moved, as well as the Great Northern Railway line.
Libby Dam: Near Jennings, Montana: Lake Koocanusa Bridge MT 37: Highway Bridge MT 37: Libby, Montana: Kootenai Falls Swinging Bridge Footbridge Kootenai Falls, Montana
The only large areas of flat land are in the Kootenay River valley from Bonners Ferry, Idaho to Kootenay Lake, and in parts of the Rocky Mountain Trench from Canal Flats to Lake Koocanusa. [22] Of the Kootenay's many tributaries, the 206-kilometre (128 mi)-long Duncan River is the largest.
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.
In the early 1970s, the creation of the Lake Koocanusa reservoir behind the Libby Dam necessitated the removal of the Wardner bridge and rerouting the respective track across the Kootenay on the replacement rail bridge built in 1970 at Fort Steele. [64]
The Lake Koocanusa Scenic Byway is a 67-mile (108 km) scenic highway in Lincoln County, Montana, USA, following the Kootenai River and the eastern shore of Lake Koocanusa on Highway 37. The road starts in Libby and proceeds north to Eureka. Lake Koocanusa is formed behind Libby Dam and has a visitors center nearby.
Wardner Bridge across the Kootenay River: 92.69: 57.59: Highway 3 west (Crowsnest Highway) / Highway 95 south – Cranbrook: Fort Steele Interchange North end of Hwy 3 concurrency; south end of Hwy 95 concurrency: Fort Steele: 99.69: 61.94: Fort Steele Bridge across the Kootenay River: 100.83: 62.65: Wardner Fort Steele Road (Highway 935:1381 ...
The treaty also allowed the U.S. to build the Libby Dam on the Kootenai River in Montana which provides a further 6.14 km 3 (4.98 Maf) of active storage in the Koocanusa reservoir. Although the name sounds like it might be of aboriginal origins, it is actually a concatenation of the first three letters from Koo tenai / Koo tenay, Can ada and ...