The Riverdale Boat Club has adopted a project of assistance to the growing number of small craft operators who take their vacations sailing up and down the Missouri River. The chief task involved is [...]Read More... from On This Day | Before[...]
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On This Day | Dam Good for Population
During the peak of construction in 1954 Riverdale’s population reached approximately 4000 persons. It has been announced that the Government will have a need for the facilities of Riverdale until the construction work is [...]Read More... from On This Day | Dam[...]
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On This Day | The Brains Behind Operating Reservoir and Other Dam News
Intelligent planning and scheduling of water releases to accomplish these results requires long-range planning as well as day-by-day decisions on details of operations. Because of the voluminous mass of data which go into these [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | The Dam Money Comes With a Cap
Upon hearing of the limit being placed on the height of the dam, North Dakota’s water commission objected stating that the state’s entire water conservation program will be in danger should the amendment be [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | A Lot of Dam News
GARRISON DAM IS NEAR the half-way stage with the end of this construction season. The eight tunnels are complete. The entire west side of the embankment has been brought amost to full height. The [...]Read More... from On This Day | A[...]
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On This Day | Before the Reservoir
At the Garrison reservoir preliminary reconnaissance of the area was completed but did not include the Fort Berthold Indian lands. More than 50 sites of Indian villages have been found and the results indicate [...]Read More... from On This Day | Before[...]
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On This Day | What Lies Beneath the Garrison Dam
The S. A. Healy company of Chicago has started construction of the first of seven tunnels which will carry the water from the intake structure of the Garrison dam to the power house. This [...]Read More... from On This Day | What[...]
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On This Day | Designing Riverdale
Although no money has yet been appropriated for construction of the dam, funds for the design of the town have been made available and work will go forward at once. Construction of the town [...]Read More... from On This Day | Designing[...]
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On This Day | The Tallest Building in North Dakota
North Dakota’s largest building, the intake structure at Garrison dam, is completed and turned over to the corps of engineers by the construction combine of Peter Kiewit—Morrison-Knudson. The concrete structure, 269 feet high and [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | Reservoir Requires Lots of Land
The Garrison reservoir will need approximately 450,000 acres of land before the project is completed -- to be bough from 3,300 land owners, army engineers state . . . about 159,000 acres within limits [...]Read More... from On This Day | Reservoir[...]
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On This Day | A Garrison Gold Rush
Dam towns shown above are Dakota City, Sitka, Silver City and Big Bend, fast-growing communities laid out and promoted by fast moving and sometimes fast-talking businessmen who stand to make a profit out of [...]Read More... from On This Day | A[...]
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On This Day | Partisan Government Nothing New
It is a well-known fact here in McLean county and state wide, that in order to get a job with the state under the Guy administration a person can't even cough like a Republican. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Partisan[...]
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On This Day | Lakeside Concession Anyone
The demand for this type of business has mounted with increased recreational use of the reservoir and will continue until the rising waterline justifies installation of permanent commercial facilities, the engineers said. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Lakeside Concession Anyone
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On This Day | Water Fight Forming Up
The House appropriations committee, influenced by recent down-river opposition, said there was a "growing concern" about the effect of diverting Missouri River water for irrigation. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Water Fight Forming Up
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On This Day | One Dam Two Lakes
When the Snake Creek arm reaches the 1850-foot elevation, there will be 133 islands with a total area of 1300 acres in the Reservoir. These islands, according to fish and wildlife experts, provide ideal [...]Read More... from On This Day | One[...]
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McFeely: Will Burgum allow us to tell the ‘negative’ story of Garrison Dam?
Garrison Dam is often hailed as a symbol of American ingenuity—an engineering feat that tamed the Missouri River and created Lake Sakakawea. But that story isn’t complete without the one beneath the waterline: the forced displacement of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara[...]