oahe dam造句

• In the 1960s, the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota were flooded by the Oahe Dam alone.
• 1958 saw the Oahe Dam closure completed and a record 240 people died on South Dakota roads.
• As a result of the construction of Oahe Dam, the agency was later moved to Eagle Butte, South Dakota.
• Pierre is home to many attractions including the Oahe Dam and the world's largest Menards, a regional home improvement store.
• The lake extends for up the course of the Missouri River past Pierre to Oahe Dam, another major power-generating and flood control embankment.
• Oahe Dam was authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1944, and construction by the United States Army Corps of Engineers began in 1948.
• In 1952, given its small population and with much of the best landed flooded by the Oahe Dam, the county was abolished and annexed into the southern part of Dewey County.
• The administration, which relies heavily on electricity generated at the Oahe Dam, was forced to spend $ 3 million to buy power that could not be produced, according to corps officials.
• The world s first rock tunnel boring machine ( TBM ) was invented in 1952 by James S . Robbins for the Oahe Dam project, which marked the beginning of machines replacing human tunnelers.
• "' Lake Oahe "'( oh-WAH'- hee ) is a large reservoir behind Oahe Dam on the Missouri River; it begins in central South Dakota and continues north into North Dakota in the United States.
• In the short term, the additional flows will add to power generation at Fort Peck Dam in Montana and Garrison Dam in North Dakota, while allowing the hydroelectric plant at Oahe Dam in South Dakota to resume full-fledged operations once the new water reaches the turbines in Pierre, the state capital, at the southern end of the 100-mile-long reservoir.