With above normal snowpack in the mountains of Montana and Wyoming, the Corps of Engineers is getting the Missouri River Reservoir system ready for that expected run off.
In the monthly update, Kevin Stamm with the water management office in Omaha, says they expect runoff to be higher than normal….

Corps Engineer Joel Knofczynski says they have reached their flood storage goals…..

Knofcynski says the big reservoirs on the system are ready for the mountain snowpack run off…..

The Corps says releases from Gavins Point Dam, the lowest on the system will stay at about eighteen thousand cubic feet per second for the rest of winter, but can be adjusted as needed.