In fact, Fort Peck was constructed with no congressional authorization whatsoever. Franklin D. Roosevelt simply decided to build the dam after he was lobbied by Montana Sen. Burton K. Wheeler and ...

In anticipation of the test flows, dam operators have been holding back more water than usual at Fort Peck Reservoir, building the lake's elevation up to 2,231 feet.

Workers on Montana's Fort Peck Dam blow off steam at night, 1936. Margaret Bourke-White—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images ...

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 ...

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Fort Peck Dam began releasing more water on April 27 as part of the Army Corps of Engineers’ test to assess if higher water could encourage endangered pallid sturgeon to move up the river to spawn.

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.

Proposed repairs to bolster Montana's Fort Peck Dam following epic flooding along the Missouri River last year would cost more than $225 million, according to cost estimates released Wednesday b ...

Proposed repairs to bolster Montana's Fort Peck Dam following epic flooding along the Missouri River last year would cost more than $225 million, according to cost estimates released Wednesday by ...