Hungry Horse Dam (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Hungry Horse Dam

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Hungry Horse Dam, on Montana's Flathead River, helped to pave the way for using fly ash in concrete. Completed in 1953, the dam was built with 120,000 metric tons of fly ash. It is one of the largest concrete-arch dams in the nation.

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Bureau of Reclamation

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