PIERRE, (KCCR) — The Missouri River will start the 2026 runoff season below the river’s flood control zone, but it will be starting in a better spot than previous years. Ryan Larson with the U-S Army Corps of Engineers says 2025 runoff was 78-percent of average…
Hydrologist Mike Swenson with the Corps says the reservoir system is about seven feet lower than it should be heading into the runoff season…
John Remus, Chief of the Missouri River Water Management Division says the river’s situation still isn’t great…
While the upper Missouri River basin currently has a below normal plains snow pack, climate outlooks call for equal changes of precipitation in the plans and above average in the mountains in late winter.
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