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Gavins Point Dam on the Missouri River between South Dakota and Nebraska
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Keith Sudbeck, Jerry, Skyler, Charlene, McKenzie at Gavins Point Dam on the Missouri River between South Dakota and Nebraska
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Keith Sudbeck, Skyler, Jerry, McKenzie, Charlene at Gavins Point Dam on the Missouri River between South Dakota and Nebraska
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Lewis and Clark Lake is formed on the Missouri River by the Gavins Point Dam
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Gavins Point Dam and Power Plant: 250,000 gallons of water/sec powers
30,000 homes, provides flood and erosion control, water supply, navigable river
and a recreational lake
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Gavins Point Dam and Power Plant forms the Lewis and Clark Lake on the Missouri River between South Dakota and Nebraska
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Lewis and Clark Visitor Center at the Gavins Point Dam on the Missouri River
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Lewis and Clark Visitor Center has a bunch of informational exhibits
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Topological map of the entire Missouri River Basin, including
Montana, Wyoming, Colorado,
North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas,
Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri
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6 dams along the Missouri create 6 lakes that hold over 73.5 million
acre-feet of water, runoff from the Rockies and the Great Plains
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Dams prevent flooding, and
provide a reliable water supply for drinking, cleaning and irrigation.
Also generate power, and provide recreation.
Also, support river navigation, keeping the river at a steady level and
preventing it from changing course.
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Before the dams, the Missouri River (the "Big Muddy") carried 135 million
tons of sediment per year, creating and removing sand bars overnight,
changing the river's course, etc.
Navigation was risky.
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The power plant building is also a fallout shelter, with luxury toilet
facilities, complete with cardboard drum, plastic seat, and privacy curtain!
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Luxurious sleeping accommodations in the fallout shelter
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Ambitious million-dollar projects to build such dams
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Bolts from the generators are a couple inches thick
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Projects worked on by the US Army Corp of Engineers: dams, Pentagon,
Panama Canal, housing, highways, etc.
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20,000 cubic feet per second flow through the dam to turn turbines,
with another 50,000 flowing through the spillways on top to manage
river levels downstream, for a total of 70,000 cubic feet per second
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Paddlefish and other marine life exhibits
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McKenzie is stylin!
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Before the dams, Missouri River pilots were critical to navigate the
ever-changing currents, especially before trains replaced steamboats
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Potted plants outside the Lewis and Clark Vistor Center remind me of
home.
Brita has whiskey barrels planted with flowers and sweet potato vines,
just like this.
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Jerry and I had dinner with the Sudbecks at a local restaurant.
Charlene, Jerry, Fred, Keith, Skyler, McKenzie
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Stone shrine near the church
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Red brick church
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Keith Sudbeck with piglets
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Fred, Keith, and Jerry with piglets
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World's smallest City Hall in Maskell, Nebraska.
One room, 10 by 12 feet.
Village Board meetings have seating for 7 town officials and up to 2
citizens.
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