Hungry Horse Dam Photo Gallery

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  • Aerial of Hungry Horse Dam and Hungry Horse Reservoir.
  • Aerial of Hungry Horse Dam and Hungry Horse Reservoir.
  • Hungry Horse Dam and Power Plant.
  • Face of Hungry Horse Dam.
  • Face of Hungry Horse Dam.
  • Hungry Horse Power Plant.
  • Generators
  • Tunnel underneath the dam, used to collect core samples.
  • Underneath the dam.
  • Seasonal installation of Selective Withdrawl gates. Designed to draw warmer water at shallow levels in the reservoir to help native bull trout fisheries downstream.
  • The legend of how Hungry Horse got its name.
  • Use of 4.5 ton, 8 foot diameter steel ball in Reservoir clearing operations.
  • Construction Engineer Clyde H. Spencer addresses at Vista Point, before Governor Sam Ford sets off dynamite blast indicating start of construction.
  • During the celebration Francis Xavier-Gardippe handled ceremonies to make Assistant Secretary of the Interior William E. Warne and Commissioner Michael W. Straus members of the Blackfoot Indian Tribe.
  • Jackhammer crews operating on Hungry Horse damsite abutment.
  • Jackhammer crews operating high on canyon wall preparing for construction of parking area retaining wall.
  • Casing sections of first of four hydraulic turbines for Hungry Horse Power Plant.
  • Construction progress at Hungry Horse Dam, including markings indicating where the top of the dam should be.
  • North side of canyon showing Hungry Horse power plant area.
  • A sign noting the two-millionth yard of concrete in Hungry Horse Dam is hung on one of the highline buckets.
  • View of Hungry Horse Dam Glory Hole spillway, passing about 225,000 gallons per second.
  • Aerial oblique view of Hungry Horse Dam and powerplant.

Contact
Dennis Philmon
(406) 387-5241 x 313
dphilmon@usbr.gov

Hungry Horse Field Office
PO Box 190130
Hungry Horse, MT 59919-0130

Last Updated: 5/19/20