I grew up around Gavins Point Dam stretching across the boundary of Nebraska and South Dakota. Severe flooding on the upper Missouri may be a rare event, but harsh criticism of the the US ARMY corp of engineers isn't. For decades, stakeholders up and down the river have waged a fierce struggle over how the corps has managed water releases from the great 6 Missouri River reservoirs -- struggles triggered equally by periods of low water as this year's high water.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Big Bend HYDRO-ELECTRIC Dam in South Dakota (on land stolen from the Crow Creek tribe) will have it's spillway inspected on July 1, 2011


http://www.facebook.com/notes/us-army-corps-of-engineers-omaha-district/june-28-2011-corps-to-inspect-spillway-gates-at-big-bend-dam-july-1-2011morivflo/242650889080947

June 28, 2011

Fort Thompson, S. D.—The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will inspect the spillway structure at Big Bend Dam July 1. Spillway gates will close so that personnel can inspect the concrete apron, wing walls and dissipation pillars via boat.

One of the tools that will be used during the inspection is a side scan sonar system since portions of the spillway structure are out of view, underwater, said Operations Project Manager Keith Fink.

The purpose of the inspection is to assess the spillway’s performance after recent, prolonged water releases. The inspection should be completed July 1.


http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=242650889080947



TRIBAL RESERVATIONS ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER MAP


NW DIVISION US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
TRIBAL RESERVATIONS ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER MAP

http://www.nwd-mr.usace.army.mil/rcc/reports/pdfs/MRMainstemSystemSpringPulseEAFINAL.pdf



RELATED HISTORY

Of THE BIG BEND HYDRO-ELECTRICAL DAM



Crow Creek Reservation Losing Power from Central Electric Cooperative



Monday, March 23, 2009



South Dakota-based Central Electric Cooperative has a policy in effect to provide electricity to its customers in the winter months regardless of their ability to pay. However, Crow Creek Reservation tribal members are getting their power turned off by the company in the midst of extreme blizzard conditions.


In numerous instances, Crow Creek residents have medical conditions that require the use of electricity, and many other residents have small children and/or elderly in the home.

In a place where tribal members remember promises from Central Electric to provide electrical power free of charge, tribal residents’ pay electricity rates one-third higher than the national average.

In 1955, Central Electric displaced an entire town of American Indians on the Crow Creek Reservation with the construction of the Big Bend Dam, built to provide a source of electricity. Read the entire article in Indian Country Today.





RELATED

Lakota Foundation | Lakota people live on less than 7 dollars a day. They need cloths, school supplies, resources.


The Foundation for the Lakota Children

HELP: THE LAKOTA FOUNDATION STOP CHILD SUICIDE

South Dakota has one of the largest populations of Native Americans on reservations particularly a Tribe called the Lakota . They have the highest rate of poverty in the world despite aid from the government, which has never been sufficient. Children are committing suicide at an alarming rate, one of the highest percentages of suicide in the world, next to Japan. Lakota people live on less than 7 dollars a day. They need cloths, school supplies, resources.

http://www.firstvoicesindigenousradio.org/

RELATED:
CROW CREEK LAND IS NOT FOR SALE!

End the attacks of the USA on the indigenous people of the world.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptlH-f37ppQ&feature=player_embedded

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