Oahe Dam the Rocky Mountains forced the dam to open the release gates (not the spillway), releasing in June with another through the power plant totaling . The previous release record was in 1997. Oahe Dam The Oahe Dam is a large earthen dam on the Missouri River, just north of Pierre, South Dakota, United States. The dam creates Lake Oahe, the fourth largest man-made reservoir in the United States. The reservoir stretches up the course of the Missouri to Bismarck, North Dakota. The dam's power plant provides electricity for much of the north-central United States. It is named for the Oahe
Grishk Dam Grishk Dam The Grishk Dam is a dam and power plant on the Helmand River, located in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. It was built by the United States in 1945 for the Helmand Valley Authority for hydroelectric power. The dam is an example of one of the 20th century projects to modernize Afghanistan. A 2003 technical journal noted that the Grishk power plant was commissioned on an irrigation canal in 1945, and had two damaged and obsolete 1.2 megawatt units which would cost US$3 million to repair. In 2005, a group of twenty Taliban fighters were captured by a joint US-Afghan