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Oahe Dam
dam, South Dakota, United States
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effect on Moreau River
- In Moreau River
…Moreau basin was inundated by Oahe Dam, a major flood-control unit of the Missouri River basin project, and is now part of Lake Oahe. The river was named for an early French trader.
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significance to Pierre
- In Pierre
Oahe Dam (1948–62)—a power, irrigation, recreation, and flood-control project 5 miles (8 km) north of Pierre—has impounded the 231-mile (372-km) Lake Oahe along the Missouri River between Pierre and Bismarck, North Dakota. Fort Pierre, across the river, was the fur-trade capital of the Northwest from…
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