- City:
- Havre, MT
- Site Type:
- Water Supply, Infrastructure and Utilities, Dams
- New Deal Agencies:
- Conservation and Public Lands, Bureau of Reclamation (BuRec)
- Started:
- 1937
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
“Chain Lakes Project – Montana – Contract for the construction of Fresno Dam across the Milk River has been awarded but no work will be done until the spring of 1937. The dam, for storage and flood control purposes, is of the earth and rock fill type. It will be about 80 feet high and 2,000 feet long, and will contain 1,870,000 cubic yards of material. The storage capacity will be 126,000 acre feet.”
Source notes
Western Construction News Jan. 1937Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on May 18, 2017.
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