Big Bend Dam with an annual production of 969 million kilowatt hours, and meets peak-hour demand for power within the Missouri River Basin. Located near Fort Thompson, South Dakota, just south of a major bend in the Missouri River (from which the dam takes its name), Big Bend Dam creates Lake Sharpe, named after South Dakota Governor Merrill Q. Sharpe. The lake extends for up the course of the Missouri River passing through Pierre, the State Capitol, to Oahe Dam, another major power-generating and flood control dam. Lake Sharpe covers a total of and drains an area just under . South Dakota Highway
Grishk Dam operation in their attempt to blow up the 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