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Missouri River Basin Run Off Should Not Be an Issue

Missouri River Basin Run Off Should Not Be an Issue

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With winter, just now officially underway, we are a long way from the spring run off season.
Doug Kluck, Central Region Climate Service Director for the National Weather Service, says the first indications are that run off into the Missouri River basin should not be an issue next spring…..https://soundcloud.com/wnax-radio/doug-kluck-1219a

Kluck says mountain snowpack is behind normal at this point…..

The Corps of Engineers says the six main stem reservoirs are expected to have the full sixteen point three million acre feet of flood storage available by spring.