Trying to predict the future levels of the Missouri River system is difficult at best.

David Swanson is Director of Research at the Missouri River Institute at the University of South Dakota. He says working with the river is always a challenge….

Swanson says a good indicator to watch for long term river and reservoir levels is mountain snowpack in Montana….

Swanson says many downstream users depend on that snow melt runoff year to year…

The Corps of Engineers has said that winter releases from Gavins Point Dam will be dropped to about twelve thousand cubic feet per second.