FORT PIERRE — The Fort Pierre City Council has approved documents that will help the U-S Army Corps of Engineers in assisting Fort Pierre for preparing for the next high water event. Public Works Director Rick Hahn says the first discussions took place after the 2011 flood. Since then smaller discussions led up to more serious talk about assistance during the 2019 high water event…
Hahn says it could help prevent damage to Fort Pierre’s infrastructure…
Hahn says in 2019 Fort Pierre was within five-thousand cubic feet-per-second of experiencing a 100-year flood event. Working with the Corps would help Fort Pierre handle releases up to 65-thousand cubic feet-per-second…
Fort Pierre would look to include its entire river frontage with the Missouri River in the plan from the North Frontier Drive area south to the Stanley County Fairgrounds.
