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Hungry Horse Dam


8/11/2010	Our location - Hungry Horse, MT Hungry Horse Dam
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	We went over to the Hungry Horse Dam. This is the first Dam in the Columbia River Dam System
	The Hungry Horse Dam was completed in 1953 for flood control. It does generate electricity with its four 107MWatt water turbine generators. For a perspective, one of the large generators at Grand Coulee Dam generates 805MWatt. Small Visitor Center compared to the other dams we have visited.
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	There is no tour of the dam but the Visitor Center has interesting displays and videos.
	There was a feature on this dam that we have not seen before. The drain, named the "Morning Glory", is a protective overflow device. If the water should reach the level of the Morning Glory, it will spill into a drain to the river below preventing water overflowing the top of the dam.
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	This one of the penstock inlets. The grates filter out flotsam from the water.
	That is the South Fork of the Flathead River. The water flowing through the dam will make a 1000 mile trip to the Pacific.
	There was a forest fire here. Mother Nature's way of cleaning up.