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Collection: 10435 - Greater North Dakota Association Records
Folder: 0004
Item: 00040
Title: Drawing by Carl R. Sebens of proposed world’s largest pumping plant, Grenora (N.D.)
Date: 1947
Creator: Sebens, Carl R.,--1920-1991
Summary: Drawing by Carl Sebens of proposed world's largest pumping plant, part of the Missouri-Souris Project #237 Grenora Pumping plant. [published in Bismarck Tribune Thursday February 6, 1947 p08] Proposed World's Largest Pumping Plant. THIS IS AN ARTISTS CONCEPTION of the world's largest proposed pumping plant which the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation plans to build at Grenora to lift water out of American Lake into the giant Missouri-Souris canal. The size of the proposed installation is indicated by the fact that each of the giant pipes carrying water from the basin below to the canal above, is to be 14 feet in diameter. The picture was drawn by Carl Sebens, Fargo, from data furnished by the Bureau of Reclamation. [Additional information published in Bismarck Tribune Tuesday June 15, 1943, p02] Here's the plan in brief: 1. Construct a low dam across the Missouri river at a point about 18 miles below the giant Fort Peck dam. 2. Divert water from this dam through a acanal 70 miles long into Medicine Lake, which lies in northeastern Montan. 3. Fill this lake with water until it holds about 4 1/2 million acre feet. (An acre foot means an acre of land covered with water one foot deep.) When the lake is so raised it will spill over the North Dakota border at Grenora. 4. Construct at Grenora the largest pumping plant in the world. The proposed discharge pipes would be so big you could drive through them a wagon loaded with hay. 5. From Grenora a giant canal would lead eastward across Williams, Divide, Burke and Renville counties to the Des Lacs and Mouse rivers. . .
Red ID: MS_I_460149 Image ID: 463563 Image Notes: 10435-00040

Collection: 10435 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Greater North Dakota Association Records
Date: 1925-1993

Summary: Minutes include by-laws, financial statements, resolutions, and minutes of the Executive Committee, Industrial Committee, Board of Directors, and joint meetings with the North Dakota Automobile Association. Minutes relate primarily to administration of the Association, tourism, promotion of economic development, Missouri River diversion plans, plans to establish the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, and relations with the North Dakota Automobile Association prior to their split in 1925. The records also include documentation of various projects, including the ND Centennial, Vision 2000, ND 2000, and new wealth creation. A list of promotional motion picture film is available. Film consists of footage shot between 1948-1963. There are sixteen 16mm reels. Film contains footage shot for the Greater North Dakota Association by Sebens and Snyder. Footage Rodeos, farm and ranch life, Medora, Theodore Roosevelt National Park opening, oil well opening, Jewel Bearing Plant groundbreaking, Fargo Diamond Jubilee, and Melroe Manufacturing Company.

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