Montana Dam Safety Program Supervisor Michele Lemieux says none of the 11 dams is in immediate danger of failing. ... one of the 91-year-old dam's corroded spillway gates suddenly gave way.

The 1985 Dam Safety Act was ... NEWS. Sound dams aim of 30-year-old law. Karl ... Without dams and reservoirs, it would be tough to live in Montana, Laurence Siroky said. "Storage dams are a ...

Photo: Courtesy BC Hydro British Columbian utility will boost generating capacity at W.A.C. Bennett Dam by phasing in five replacement turbine units by 2017. PPL Montana says Old Dams, New Power ...

Now, the old generators turn side by side with modern replacement units. ... Montana Power sold the 11 dams featured in the book to Pennsylvania Power and Light in 1997.

The timeline to restore water to the Milk River is late summer 2025.

MILLTOWN, Mont. — Workers breached the old Milltown Dam near Missoula on Friday, allowing two famed rivers to begin flowing freely for the first time in a century.

The dam was built in the 1940s for a government camp and water supply. Then 20 years later it was turned into a recreational lake. At some point in the 1970s, workers raised the reservoir about 3 ...

NBC Montana, operating as KECI in ... The U. S. Bureau of Reclamation is planning to spend between $150 million and $200 million to overhaul the 65-year-old Hungry Horse Dam in northwest Montana.

The McKinley Lake Montana Conservation Core team clears boulders from the McKinley Lake dam decommission site on Aug. 6, 2024. SHANNA MADISON, Missoulian "I feel very humble to be out here every day." ...