Fort Peck Dam repairs from flooding to cost $42.9M

Published March 27, 2013 4:06pm ET



BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved spending more than $42.9 million to repair damages to Fort Peck Dam after the record 2011 flooding that broke levees and swamped homes along the Missouri River.

It is part of $234 million slated for more than 100 projects to stabilize dams and levees from Fort Peck to the river’s junction with the Mississippi River.

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