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Fort Peck Dam

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Title: Fort Peck Dam On Missouri River Fort Peck Dam (MT), Linen PM 1943 Description: Figures describing the construction of this mammoth earth fill stagger the imagination. Nearly a mile in width at its base, and the roadway atop the fill being 250 feet above the former Missouri River channel, it backs water when filled, 175 river miles.		Title: Fort Peck Dam & Powerhouses Fort Peck Dam (MT), Chrome unused Description: The Fort Peck Reservoir on the Missouri River is a magnificent lake containing 19,412,000 acre feet of water, has 1600 miles of shoreline offering excellent recreational facilities to a large area of Eastern Montana. The Dam is an earthen structure, 250.5 feet high and 21,026 feet long. Gigantic twin powerhouses in this recent scene combine to generate nearly a billion kilowatt hours or electrical energy a year.

Title: Fort Peck Dam Spillway Fort Peck Dam (MT), Chrome unused Description: Aerial view of Fort Peck Spillway on the Missouri River in Eastern Montana. Visitors taking the tourist route may drive across the four-mile earthfill dam, three miles along the lake shore to the spillway structure and then on to the Power Plant and industrial area near the townsite. Fort Peck is the largest earthfill dam ever built by man.

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