Gavins Point Dam

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Coordinates: 42 ° 51 ′ 45 "  N , 97 ° 29 ′ 30"  W.

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South Dakota

The Gavins Point Dam is a hydroelectric dam located near Yankton , South Dakota in the United States of America. He dams the Missouri on a length of 40 kilometers to Lewis and Clark Lake . The dam is 2,652 meters long and 23 meters high and can generate 132 MW of electrical energy.

The dam was built by the US Army Corps of Engineers between 1952 and 1957 as part of the Pick Sloan program decided in 1944 . The reservoir flooded parts of the Yankton Reservation and the Santee Sioux Reservation . To enforce the construction project, the Army Corps illegally expropriated the Yankton Sioux for a small amount of compensation that did not even cover their resettlement costs. Years later, they were granted additional compensation.

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Aerial view of Gavins Point Dam and Lewis and Clark Lake near Yankton , South Dakota
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Location of the dams and lakes of the Pick Sloan project and the Indian reservations affected by flooding
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Gavins Point Dam on June 14, 2011. There is massive water discharge.
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Gavins Point Dam: View of South Dakota

Web links

Commons : Gavins Point Dam  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Summary of engineering data Missouri River main stem system
  2. ↑ Michael L. Lawson: Dammed Indians: The Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux, 1944-1980 . University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. ISBN 9780806126722