PIERRE — The U-S Army Corps of Engineers took its low water road show to Fort Pierre Tuesday to give an update on the latest conditions in the Missouri River. Travis Tarver with the National Weather Service in Aberdeen says the drier warmer trends look to continue even as a La Nina lessens…
Mike Swenson with the Corps says the forecast for the Oahe reservoir is well below normal…
Swenson says access to water is becoming an issue in some places…
March runoff in the basin was 48-percent of average at one-point-five million acre feet. For the season, updated runoff for 2022 is forecast at 17-point-eight million acre feet; 69-percent of average and down two-point-six million acre feet from the March 1st forecast.
