Big boulder slams into Montana dam

Here’s one newspaper’s account of how the big rock ended up where it did.

PPL Montana officials said the hydroelectric plant on the Madison Dam near Ennis is still running full power despite an incident earlier that day when a school bus-sized boulder rolled into the western crest of the dam, but they said they will have to lower the water level in Ennis Lake by nine feet to repair the dam, and that repairs will take weeks.

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