![A dam project flooded his family's North Dakota home. He waged a historic legal battle to get just compensation. - InForum | Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo news, weather and sports A dam project flooded his family's North Dakota home. He waged a historic legal battle to get just compensation. - InForum | Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo news, weather and sports](https://cdn.forumcomm.com/dims4/default/fd76a24/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1920x1080+0+0/resize/1895x1066!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforum-communications-production-web.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F97%2F7f%2Fcf08ba2a4cc0b2b21304ebb1ef60%2Fgeorge-gillette-weeps.jpg)
A dam project flooded his family's North Dakota home. He waged a historic legal battle to get just compensation. - InForum | Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo news, weather and sports
Bureau of Reclamation - Reclamation announced that EWS-RSCI, LLC of Gillette, Wyoming, was awarded a $14.5 million contract to raise the spillway crest increasing the water storage at Big Sandy Dam. The
![Florida Memory • Governor Caldwell eating barbecue with army engineer Colonel Gillette at the groundbreaking for Jim Woodruff dam. Florida Memory • Governor Caldwell eating barbecue with army engineer Colonel Gillette at the groundbreaking for Jim Woodruff dam.](https://www.floridamemory.com/fpc/redkerce/rk0105.jpg)
Florida Memory • Governor Caldwell eating barbecue with army engineer Colonel Gillette at the groundbreaking for Jim Woodruff dam.
![George Gillette (left) chairman of the Fort Berthold Indian Tribal Business Council, covers his face as he weeps in the office of Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug in Washington, May, 20, George Gillette (left) chairman of the Fort Berthold Indian Tribal Business Council, covers his face as he weeps in the office of Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug in Washington, May, 20,](https://l450v.alamy.com/450v/2ng4gad/george-gillette-left-chairman-of-the-fort-berthold-indian-tribal-business-council-covers-his-face-as-he-weeps-in-the-office-of-secretary-of-interior-j-a-krug-in-washington-may-20-1948-krug-is-signing-a-contract-whereby-the-tribe-sells-155000-acres-of-its-reservation-in-north-dakota-for-the-garrison-dam-and-reservoir-project-in-a-prepared-statement-gillette-said-the-members-of-the-tribal-council-sign-this-contract-with-heavy-hearts-right-now-the-future-does-not-look-good-to-us-ap-photo-2ng4gad.jpg)