Garrison Dam and Diversion Project Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 464
Scope and Contents
Pamphlets, articles, and newspaper clippings on the history of the Garrison project from the 1950s through the early 1970s. Includes mention of people, organizations, and places involved, including C.S.N.D., Inc. (Committee to Save North Dakota, Inc.) which opposed the project, Sivert Thompson, and the North Dakota Farmers Union. Also includes Canadian pamphlets raising concerns about the diversion project.
Dates
- 1948-1980
Access
The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the NDSU Archives.
Copyrights
Copyrights to this collection is held by the NDSU Archives.
History
Garrison Dam is an earth fill embankment dam located near Garrison, N.D. It was constructed between 1947 and 1953. The dam produces electricity for several hundred thousand customers.
Extent
3 Folders (3 folders (67 items))
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Pamphlets, articles, and newspaper clippings on the history of the Garrison project from the 1950s through the early 1970s. Includes mention of people, organizations, and places involved, including C.S.N.D., Inc. (Committee to Save North Dakota, Inc.) which opposed the project, Sivert Thompson, and the North Dakota Farmers Union. Also includes Canadian pamphlets raising concerns about the diversion project.
Provenance
Unknown.
Property rights
The NDSU Archives owns the property rights to this collection.
- Articles.
- Clippings.
- Committee to Save North Dakota.
- Devils Lake (N.D.)
- Fliers.
- Garrison Diversion Project.
- Hydroelectric power plants -- North Dakota.
- Irrigation canals and flumes -- North Dakota.
- Irrigation engineering -- North Dakota.
- McClusky Canal (N.D.)
- Missouri River.
- North Dakota Farmers Union.
- Pamphlets.
- Periodicals.
- Sakakawea, Lake (N.D.)
- Snake Creek (N.D.)
- Souris River.
- Thompson, Sivert W., d. 1963.
- Water resources development -- Environmental aspects -- Manitoba.
- Water resources development -- Environmental aspects -- North Dakota.
- Water resources development -- North Dakota -- Citizen participation.
- Water-supply -- North Dakota.
- Water-supply, Agricultural -- North Dakota.
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Garrison Dam and Diversion Project Records
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Institute for Regional Studies Repository
Contact:
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States
ndsu.archives@ndsu.edu