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Hungry Horse Dam
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- Hungry Horse Dam is an arch dam in the Western United States, on the South Fork Flathead River in the Rocky Mountains of northwest Montana.
- Hungry Horse Dam is a concrete arch dam located about 4 miles from Hungry Horse, Flathead, Montana.
- Hungry Horse Dam is an arch dam in the western United States, on the South Fork Flathead River in the Rocky Mountains of northwest Montana.
- Hungry Horse Dam is 2,100 feet long and 564 feet high, and contains approximately 250 million cubic yards of concrete.
- Hungry Horse Dam, on Montana’s Flathead River, has a name as charming as the timbered high country in which it stands.
- Hungry Horse Dam is one of America’s largest concrete arch dams – 564 feet tall – and offers explorers the rare opportunity to drive or walk across it.
- Hungry Horse Dam, on Montana's Flathead River, helped to pave the way for using fly ash in concrete.
- The dam was built as part of the Hungry Horse Hydroelectric Project with the twin purposes of power provision and flood control.
- Hungry Horse Dam is 500 feet tall and produces over 400 megawatts from its hydroelectric power plant.
- Hungry Horse was the fourth-highest concrete dam in the world upon completion, but its completion date is up for interpretation.
