The mountain snow pack that feeds the Missouri River basin is rapidly melting, and runoff into the system is increasing. Jody Farhat, Chief of the Missouri River Water Management Office for the Corps of Engineers in Omaha, says they have plenty of room for the increased snowmelt….

The forecast is for runoff to peak at about one hundred eighteen percent of average.
Farhat says they have plenty of room in the reservoirs…..

Farhat says there is still some flood risk, mostly downstream…..

Flows from Gavins Point Dam near Yankton have been stepped up to thirty-three thousand cubic feet per second to keep the reservoirs in balance.