SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A dry fall across the Northern Plains
has helped the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers release water from the
six Missouri River reservoirs to guard against a repeat of this
year's major flooding along the river.
Corps official Jody Farhat says the agency should reach its goal
later this month of 56.9 million acre feet of flood storage in the
reservoirs.
South Dakota Climatologist Dennis Todey says that there is "marginal to
no snowpack" across the Plains. And December snow measurements in
Montana's mountains have been average to a bit below average in the
drainage areas that feed the Missouri.
Farhat says reservoirs are near the point whether they should be
able to accommodate the projected runoff next spring.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
AP-NY-12-19-11 0717EST
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