Published March 12, 2010, 07:46 AM
Corps watching for downstream flooding
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers said there's room in the Missouri River reservoirs to hold more water if downstream river levels are high from flooding this spring.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers said there's room in the Missouri River reservoirs to hold more water if downstream river levels are high from flooding this spring.
The corps said the snowpack on the Plains increases the potential for flooding on many rivers in the Dakotas, Nebraska and western Iowa. If that runoff raises the level of the Missouri River below Sioux City, Iowa, the corps said it can store more water in the upstream reservoirs until downstream river levels fall.
So far, mountain snowpack that melts into the upper reaches of the system is 71 percent of normal.
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