BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – 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 ...

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 ...

BOZEMAN — The construction of the colossal dam at Fort Peck, which manifested the promise of America when it was built 75 years ago and still stands as one of ...

In October of 1933, construction of Fort Peck Dam began. Completed in 1940, at the time it was the nation’s largest public works project.

At the peak of construction, 10,000 workers and their families -- an estimated 40,000 people -- lived in the area. The dam, the largest hydraulic-filled earthen dam in the world, is celebrating ...

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.

FORT PECK - Deep in the powerhouse of Fort Peck Dam, you can hear the gentle trickle of water. With giant power-generating equipment all around, Andrew Ollenburg tends a small ...

FORT PECK, MT - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is celebrating 20 years since opening the Fort Peck Dam Interpretive Center and Museum in Fort Peck, Montana on Saturday, June 21, 2025.

Origins and early years of the U.S. reclamation service: the massive and structural traditions of dam design -- The Corps of engineers and early multipurpose projects: Wilson and Tygart dams -- The ...

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 ...