The Corps of Engineers says runoff in the Missouri River Basin above Sioux City, Iowa, was two point six million acre feet during April, eighty nine percent of average. Jody Farhat, chief of the Corps’ Missouri River Basin Water Management Division, based in Omaha, says they continue to monitor changing conditions…..

Widespread rain late last month increased flows on many of the tributaries that join the Missouri River below the reservoir system, causing river levels to rise above flood stage. Farhat says they have limited options to control that downstream flooding…

The 2016 runoff forecast is twenty two point five million acre feet, 89 percent of average. The total volume of water currently stored in the Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System is about fifty eight million acre feet, occupying one point eight million acre feet of the sixteen point three million acre feet flood control zone.