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
Aroona Dam Aroona Dam Aroona Dam is a reservoir in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Leigh Creek about west of the locality’s town centre. The dam consists of a concrete gravity dam of a height of and a width of which holds back a lake of a volume of and which extends for a distance about to the east of the dam wall. The origin of its name is not mentioned in sources. However, the word ‘Aroona’ is listed in the official government place name gazetteer as the name of some geographic features either adjoining