When the famous photographer Margaret Bourke-White made her iconic 1936 Life magazine cover shot of the still-under-construction spillway at Fort Peck Dam – the very first cover of the magazine ...

Fort Peck Dam was completed in 1940 after seven years of construction. It is the largest hydraulically filled dam in the United States. The structure received its most intensive test on June 15, ...

There is a possibility a failure of Fort Peck Dam could lead to a domino-like collapse of all five downstream dams. It probably would wreck every bridge, highway, pipeline and power line and split ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved spending more than $42.9 million to repair damages to Fort Peck Dam after the record 2011 flooding that broke levees and ...

Fort Peck Dam has bumped up its releases to 17,000 cubic feet per second as high inflows have pushed the reservoir level up 3 feet in two weeks, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

But not far away, holding back one of the biggest reservoirs in the world and sitting on the Missouri River, is the Fort Peck Dam. At 21,000 feet long and 250 feet high, it's almost 80 years old ...

Major Clark Kittrell, No. 2 man on the Fort Peck Dam project. Margaret Bourke-White—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Caption from LIFE. Drinking in Ed's Place, Montana, 1936.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has partially opened two of the Fort Peck Dam's spillway gates to relieve the rising water level in the reservoir.