Capacity
Great Falls Dam is a concrete gravity diversion type dam 92 feet (28 m) high and 800 feet (240 m) long, and has a generating capacity of 33,800 kilowatts. The dam's spillway has 18 gates with a combined discharge of 150,000 cubic feet (4,200 m3) per second. Great Falls Reservoir has approximately 49,000 acre feet (60,000,000 m3) of flood storage, 120 miles (190 km) of shoreline, and 1,830 acres (740 ha) of water surface.
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