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Garrison Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Missouri River in central North Dakota, U.S. Constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1947 to 1953, at over two miles (3.2 km) in length, the dam is the fifth-largest earthen dam in the world. [4]
Map showing the Missouri River basin Garrison Dam, which forms Lake Sakakawea, the largest reservoir on the Missouri River. This is a list of dams in the watershed of the Missouri River, a tributary of the Mississippi River, in the United States.
A map showing the extent of Lake Sakakawea in the Fort Berthold Reservation. In the 1940s, as part of the Pick–Sloan Missouri Basin Program , plans were drawn up to create the Garrison Dam , which would subsequently create Lake Sakakawea , for the purpose of providing hydroelectric power , irrigation, and recreation in the area.
The reservation consists of 988,000 acres (4,000 km 2), of which 457,837 acres (1,853 km 2) are owned by Native Americans, either as individual allotments or communally by the tribe. [4] The McLean National Wildlife Refuge lies within its boundaries. The Tribe reported a total enrollment of 15,013 registered tribe members in March 2016.
Lake Sakakawea, Garrison Dam, and other dams and reservoirs of the Pick–Sloan Project, and affected Indian reservations. The reservoir was created by construction of Garrison Dam, part of a flood control and hydroelectric power generation project named the Pick–Sloan Project along the Missouri river. Garrison dam was completed in 1956.
The Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation (MHA Nation), also known as the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan: Miiti Naamni; Hidatsa: Awadi Aguraawi; Arikara: ačitaanu' táWIt), is a federally recognized Native American Nation resulting from the alliance of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara peoples, whose Indigenous lands ranged across the Missouri River basin extending from present day North Dakota ...
Thompson was 7 when she saw the dead fish floating in the river, and that memory has stayed with her. She saw it as evidence that dam removal was essential for restoring the river's health.
Riverdale is a town in McLean County, North Dakota, United States.The population was 223 at the 2020 census. [3]Riverdale was the largest of the construction camps that sprang up in 1946 to house workers building the Garrison Dam just to the west.