In fact, Fort Peck was constructed ... thinking the effort had been a failure. When Wheeler ran for re-election in 1934 he won Valley County, where the dam is located, by the rather comfortable ...

Shanks said a Fort Peck failure could lead to a domino-like collapse of all five downstream dams on the way to St. Louis. This sort of cascade dam failure has happened a number of times in ...

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They break and erode away, usually within an hour. All are full. There is a possibility a failure of Fort Peck Dam could lead to a domino-like collapse of all five downstream dams. It probably ...

After more than seven years of work, authorization of a waterline from Fort Peck Dam to the Fort Peck Fish ... and may be very close to complete failure,” the draft EA stated in 2016.

The moment: Construction on Fort Peck Dam begins in 1933. The story:"Now people talk about the Fort Peck Dam as the fulfillment of a dream. It is only a small percentage of the whole dream ...

BILLINGS, Mont. – Proposed repairs to bolster Montana's Fort Peck Dam following epic flooding along the Missouri River last year would cost more than $225 million, according to cost estimates ...

B ILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved spending more than $42.9 million to repair damages to Fort Peck Dam after the record 2011 flooding that broke levees and ...

I was to stop off at New Deal, a settlement near Billings, Montana, where I would photograph the construction of Fort Peck, the world’s largest earth-filled dam. Harry told me to watch out for ...