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Heart Butte Dam is a dam in Grant County of southwestern North Dakota. The dam was a project of the United States Bureau of Reclamation completed in 1949, primarily for irrigation and flood control. The earthen dam is 142 feet in height and impounds the Heart River.
location of Dickinson, North Dakota. Dickinson Dam is a dam in Stark County, North Dakota, one and a half miles west of the town of Dickinson. The earthen dam was completed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation in May 1950, impounding the Heart River. [1] The dam has a structural height of 65 feet and is 2275 feet along its crest.
The Bureau was established in July 1902 as the "United States Reclamation Service" and was renamed in 1923. The agency has operated in the 17 western states of the continental U.S., divided into five administrative regions.
Trump recently named North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum as his pick for Interior Secretary but has yet to name a pick for Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner – a lesser-known but critical role that ...
The Jamestown Dam [2] is a rolled-earth dam spanning the James River in Stutsman County in the U.S. state of North Dakota, serving the primary purpose of flood control. It is north of the city of Jamestown, North Dakota. [3] Built from April 1952 to September 1953, the dam measures 1,418 feet (432 m) long at the crest and 85 feet (26 m) high.
The land near St. Anthony Falls, the birthplace of Minneapolis and a sacred site to the Indigenous people who lived there before the arrival of Europeans, is once again coming under native ...
For its part, the Bureau of Reclamation described itself in a fact sheet as “the nation’s largest wholesale water supplier,” adding that it also contributes $34.1 billion in added economic ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in North Dakota. 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 ).