PIERRE — The Missouri River basin is seeing above normal runoff, but even that is still leaving reservoirs on the main stem system well short of full. Ryan Larsen with the Corps of Engineers in Omaha, Nebraska says runoff forecasts remain stable…
May’s runoff was four-point-nine million acre feet or 144-percent of average. Mike Swenson with the Corps says the Oahe Reservoir will get close to returning to where it would normally start the runoff season…
John Remus, Chief of the Missouri River Water Management Division says even with the improvements, the Corps will continue to be cautious…
As forecast now, Garrison Reservoir is the only one of the big three Missouri River reservoirs that will rise above the base of it’s flood control zone before the end of the year.
