WSP05441 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

oaOlO' CA}ITON FERRY UNIT Description: Canyon Ferry Dam will be located on the main Mis- souri River, about 17 miles east of Helena, Montana. It will be a concrete gravity-typo dam, with a maximum head above the river bed of 172 feet and a crest length of 1,000 feet. Canyon Ferry Reserveir will have a total storage capacity of about 2 million acre-feet. The project plan includes a 50,000 kilowatt power plant. Canyon Ferry Dam, Power Plant, and appurtenant works will cost an estimated $25,282,000. A contract for ~11,396,425 was awarded for construction of the dam and pcwer plant structure on April 20, 1949, Program FY49 Funds available, ~2,894,835. Accomplishments FY49 Costs to June 30, $1,331,074. The county road relocation and Government camp were to be com- pleted. Construction of the dam was schoduled to start. The main contract for relocation of county roads (Spec. 1920) was com- pleted; another contract (Spec.2580) was 20 ?arcent complete on June 30. All contracts for the Government camp and utilities were completed. The dam and power plant were one per- cent completed on June 30, 1949. FORT PECK PROJECT Description: Under the previsions ef the Fort Peck Project Act, the Bureau of Reclamation is directed to provide, construct, operate, maintain, and improve such transmission lines, substations, and facili- ties as it finds neccssary to transmit electrical energy available for sale, from the Fort Peck Project, to existing and potential markets. In accordance with Bureau of Reclamation request, the Corps of Engineers of the War Department is making plans to install a third generating unit at the Fort Peck Power Plant to meet growing power de- mands. The rapid expansion of rural electrification for irrigation pumping and domestic use in Montana has resulted in a very marked in- crease in the demand for power. The Montana-Dakota Utilities Company has experienced a shortage of power and contracted with the Bureau for the purchase of Fort Peck electric energy. To serve this company and other Bureau loads, including rural cooperatives and irrigation pumping loads, reached over the company's facilities, a ll5-kv, 140- mile transmission line was started in fiscal year 1945. This line and its substation terminal at Glendive, Montana, were placed in operation in December 1945. Construction has been started on a 115-kv, 139-mile transmission line between Fort Peck and Williston, North Dakota, and a ll5-Iev, 78-mile transmission line between Glendive and Miles City, Montana . 41