Releases from Gavins Point Dam on the Missouri River near Yankton will be back to thirty thousand cubic feet per second by the end of the week.
The Corps of Engineers had dropped the flow by three thousand cubic feet per second to allow the elevation of Lewis & Clark Lake to rise about four feet.
Gavins Point Project Manager Tom Curran says they have never seen winter releases at this level…
Curran says upstream river levels have varied quite a bit due to ice…
Curran says they haven’t seen any flooding problems below Ft Randall Dam yet..
The Corps is projecting releases staying at thirty thousand cubic feet per second for at least the next several weeks. The higher flows are part of their plan to have more flood storage space in upstream reservoirs.
