Lake Sakakawea

The Lake Sakakawea is a reservoir in North Dakota in the United States. The Missouri is just after he has taken the somewhat broader Yellowstone River, dammed by the Garrison Dam, which is named after the town of Garrison in North Dakota. The dam is used for flood control, electricity generation, the canalization, irrigation and fish farming. It is named after the Indian woman Sacajawea.

Reservoir

After the water surface of the reservoir the second largest in the United States after Lake Powell and after the memory content is, it is the third or fourth largest after Lake Mead, Lake Powell, and - depending on the actual memory contents - including the Lake Oahe. The reservoir is located about 80 miles from Bismarck, North Dakota removed. Up to this point gave the glacial ice in the Ice Age.

The lake is 286 km long, on average, between three and five miles and less than 10 km wide, has a shoreline of 2000 km and a memory content that is specified differently with 27.9 to 31.1 billion cubic meters. The maximum water depth at the dam is 55 m.

Dam

The " Garrison Dam " at Riverdale and Pick City is the second and largest of the six dams on the Missouri. The Erdschüttdamm was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and operated by him. In June 1953, he was inaugurated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower; the earthworks were completed in 1954 and the remaining construction work lasted until 1956. The dam with its volume of 50.845 million cubic meters at a height of 62 (or 64 ) m and a length of 3444, possibly even 4000 m, one of the largest in the world.

The construction of the dam has cost 300 million dollars. To aufzuschütten him nine million truckloads of earth were brought or transported daily 60,000 m³. The other five dams on the Missouri Fort Peck, Oahe, Big Bend Dam, Fort Randall and Gavins Point.

Hydroelectric power station

The turbines of the hydroelectric plant at the dam have an electrical generator capacity of 515 megawatts. On average they produce 240 MW, enough to meet the needs of several hundred thousand people.

Farm

In the reservoir and fish are bred. There is the largest breeding station for glass eyes perch and pike, the Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery. Also endangered species such as the White Shovelnose are reared.