'Best Dam Celebration' marks Gardiner Dam's 50th anniversary

The Saskatchewan Party government hosted the “best dam celebration in the province” on Friday to mark the 50th anniversary of the Gardiner Dam, which opened in July 1967 after nine years of construction work. 
The single largest piece of infrastructure in the province, and one of the world’s biggest earth-filled dams, the Gardiner Dam is five kilometres long and 64 metres tall. It and the smaller Qu’Appelle Dam created 225-kilometre Lake Diefenbaker. 
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