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Missouri River Flows Staying Stable

Missouri River Flows Staying Stable

Gavins Point Dam Photo: WNAX


The Corps of Engineers will hold releases from Gavins Point Dam at thirty thousand cubic feet per second well into fall.
Tom Curran, Manager at Gavins Point, says the entire Missouri River basin is seeing below normal precipitation…

Curran says the engineers in their Omaha office will soon set the winter release rate…

Curran says releases continue to get to their winter water storage point…

Storage at the beginning of August was just over sixty-one million-acre feet. Predicted runoff for the year will be about thirty-one million-acre feet, or one hundred twenty percent of normal.

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