The Corps of Engineers says outflows from Gavins Point Dam on the Missouri River near Yankton will continue to drop but flooding downstream won’t drop for some time.
During a Sunday update, John Remus, Chief of the Missouri River Basin Water Management Office in Omaha, says Lewis & Clark Lake is slowly dropping from the flood zone…
Kevin Low, with the National Weather Service Missouri Basin River Forecast Center, says the crest is moving downriver….
Low says warmer temperatures this week will begin the rapid melt of snowpack in the upper James and Big Sioux Rivers….
The Corps said most levees have failed from Omaha downstream into Missouri and Kansas causing widespread flooding. The river set an all time high just over forty feet at Plattsmouth, about four feet higher than the old record.
