Hydropower turbines at Garrison Dam have an electric power generating nameplate capacity of 583.3 MW. The first use of the emergency spillway due to flooding started on June 1, 2011, at 8:00am. In June 2011, in response to the 2011 Missouri River Floods, the dam was releasing more than 140,000 cubic feet per second (4,000 m 3/s), which greatly exceeded its previous record release of 65,000 cu ft/s (1,800 m 3/s) set in 1997. These six mainstem dams impound these Missouri River reservoirs with a total combined water storage capacity of approximately 73,129,000 acre⋅ft (90.203 km 3) and approximately 1,111,884 acres (449,963 ha) of water surface area. The dams downstream of Garrison Dam are: Oahe Dam (near Pierre, South Dakota), Big Bend Dam (near Fort Thompson, South Dakota), Fort Randall Dam (near Pickstown, South Dakota), and Gavins Point Dam (near Yankton, South Dakota). The dam upstream of Garrison Dam is Fort Peck Dam (near Fort Peck, Montana). Garrison Dam is one of six Missouri River Main stem dams operated by the U.S. The Corps of Engineers completed earthwork in the fall of 1954. The dam was dedicated by President Eisenhower two months later. It created new divisions among the segments on the reservation : p27 Construction on the $300-million dam project began in 1947, and its embankment was enclosed in April 1953. In addition, the size the lake, and the lack of bridges to cross it for decades, disrupted traditional relations among the peoples. Thus construction of Garrison Dam almost totally destroyed the traditional way of life for the Three Affiliated Tribes and made them much more dependent on the federal government. : 61 About 1,700 residents were forcibly relocated, some to New Town, North Dakota at the northern end of the reservation. The final settlement legislation denied the tribes' right to use the reservoir shoreline for traditional grazing, hunting, fishing or other purposes, including irrigation development and royalty rights on all subsurface minerals within the reservoir area. They had cultivated the bottomlands and were able to be largely self-sufficient. This amount was increased to $7.5 million in 1949, but it did not fully compensate them for the loss of their important farmlands, homes, towns, and graves. The tribes gained remuneration, but lost 94% of their agricultural land : 59–60 in 1947, when they were forced to accept $5,105,625. A complete block of Garrison Dam power was denied because it would violate the 1935 Rural Electrification Act. Threatened by confiscation under eminent domain, the tribes protested. These lands were owned by the Three Affiliated Tribes, and the territory "had been their home for perhaps more than a millennium". In order to construct the dam, the US government needed to purchase 152,360 acres (616.6 km 2) of bottomlands in the Fort Berthold Reservation that would be flooded by the creation of Lake Sakakawea. Majority-white communities had resisted having the dam built at other locations on the river where they would be affected. The dam was part of a flood control and hydroelectric power generation project named the Pick-Sloan Project along the river, after the two plan developers, Col. Highway 83.ĭams and reservoirs in the Pick–Sloan Program, and affected Indian reservations. The dam is approximately midway between Bismarck and Minot, about 10 miles (16 km) west of U.S. Garrison Dam is located between Riverdale and Pick City, and named after the town of Garrison, directly north of the dam, across the reservoir. The reservoir impounded by the dam is Lake Sakakawea, which extends to Williston and the confluence with the Yellowstone River, near the Montana border. Army Corps of Engineers from 1947 to 1953, at over 2 miles (3.2 km) in length, the dam is the fifth-largest earthen dam in the world. Garrison Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Missouri River in central North Dakota, U.S.Ĭonstructed by the U.S.
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