Water releases from Gavins Point Dam on the Missouri River that normally flow through the power house, will instead be released from the spillway for the next few months.

Dave Becker, Operations Manager for the Corps of Engineers at the dam says due to work at the powerhouse, water will be diverted…

 

Becker says spillway flows do have an effect on downstream boaters and fishermen…

 

Water releases are now running at twenty five thousand five hundred cubic feet per second. Becker says they expect normal flows into the summer…