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SD Senator Mike Rounds Expects Corps of Engineers to Install Snow Pack Monitoring System

SD Senator Mike Rounds Expects Corps of Engineers to Install Snow Pack Monitoring System

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The Water Resources Development Act has been passed by Congress and is on the President’s desk.
Among other things, the bill authorizes the Corps of Engineers to install a snowpack monitoring system in the upper Missouri River watershed.
South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds says the Corps has stalled long enough…

The need for more real time snow melt information came after the floods of 2011.

Rounds says this system is a priority…

Rounds says he wants to see activity by next year….

The floods that year caused millions of dollars in damages from North Dakota to Missouri.

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