The Corps of Engineers has released the first guess on spring run off into the Missouri River basin.
Jody Farhat, chief of the Corps’ Missouri River Water Management Division in Omaha says the river reservoirs are being lowered ahead of the spring snow melt…..
Kevin Stamm an engineer in the water management division says current conditions would lead to lower than normal run off….
Mike Swenson, with the water management division, says the reservoirs have all their flood capacity ready…….
Releases from Gavins Point Dam near Yankton have been increased to twenty four thousand cubic feet per second to help move water out of the flood storage.
