PIERRE, (KCCR) — Unless more moisture arrives in the Missouri River basin expect another year of below average runoff. The U-S Army Corps of Engineers held it’s first monthly update on runoff projections into the river Thursday afternoon. Ryan Larsen with the Corps in Omaha says the current projection is just under 80-percent of average…
Mike Swenson with the Corps says the Oahe Reservoir has the largest deficit, but officials will work to balance the water in the Big Three reservoirs…
Swenson says the Big Three should start the runoff season seven to eight feet below the base of their flood control pools. Larson says mountain snowpack is behind the averages…
Runoff in 2024 amounted to 23-point-three million acre feet or 91-percent of average.
