Garrison Dam
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The dam is between Riverdale and Pick City, North Dakota. Garrison, North Dakota is named after the dam.
Hydropower turbines at Garrison Dam have a generating capacity of 515 megawatts of electricity. Their average production is 240 megawatts, enough for several hundred thousand people.
The Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery is the world's largest walleye and northern pike producing facility and also works to restore endangered species, such as the pallid sturgeon.
External links
- Garrison Dam: A Half Century Later North Dakota Outdoors
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Garrison Dam
- Mandan. Hidatsa and Arikara Nation article on the Garrison Dam
