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Corps of Engineers Focused on Flood Control

Corps of Engineers Focused on Flood Control

Gavins Point Dam Photo: WNAX


The Corps of Engineers is struggling with high levels in the Missouri River reservoirs and time running out to get them to winter storage stages.

John Remus, Chief of the Missouri River Basin Water Management Office in Omaha, says their focus is still on flood control and safety….

Remus says they are aware of the damages caused by the high water..

Remus says each run off year is unique….

The Corps will maintain releases from Gavins Point Dam at eighty thousand cubic feet per second through November before rapidly stepping them down by mid-December.

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