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by Jim McCarty | jmccarty@ruralmissouri.coop
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n a December day in 1969, 5-year-old Rod Hendricks pressed an oversized button and watched as the red light on a panel changed to yelORZWKHQJUHHQ7KHOLJKWVVLJQDOHGWKHFORVLQJRIWKHÀQDOWRQJDWH
on Stockton Dam - and the impoundment of the Sac River into what
would become Stockton Lake.
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acres of water. Today he is operations project manager for the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers which manages the lake and dam. A photo of him during the ceremony hangs on his wall, and he still has the hard hat he wore that day.
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president of the group that worked for many years to get the dam built. He said
the project had been built in 5-year increments, so he wanted kids whose ages
matched those milestones to have the honor.
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According to an article in the Cedar County Republican, the river refused to
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many, many centuries."
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walleye. Stockton Dam also generates critical peaking power used by electric
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for it and some were against it. But people would come out to see the progress."
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funds for the dam. Brown made the appeal to the House appropriations committee armed with a petition signed by thousands of Dade and Cedar county
residents urging a start on the multi-million dollar project. His efforts secured
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speculation," according to the Republican. By 1961 the 6SULQJÀHOG News-Leader ZDV UHSRUWLQJ WKDW ´(YHU\WKLQJ·V VHW ³ H[FHSW PRQH\µ 7KH DUWLFOH UHODWHG
that survey work and drilling to test the bedrock was going on 16 hours a day.
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ly, too much water from torrential rain forced organizers to move the event
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projects now either underway or planned, we are moving, and at a rapid pace,
to meet the vital modern challenge of water resources development."
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make plans to move out of the area. One of the places affected by the lake was
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Rural Missouri - December 2019
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Rural Missouri - December 2019 - Intro
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