SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Officials say levees at Dakota Dunes
were built high enough to handle the extra water being released
into the Missouri River from Gavins Point Dam.
The Army Corps of Engineers will increase discharges from the
dam near Yankton to 160,000 cubic feet per second on Thursday
because of heavy rain.
Spokesman Lee Rettig at the flood command center said the river
level is expected to rise about 10 inches immediately below the
dam. But he said the increase will be less at Dakota Dunes because
the river is wider there and the water will spread out.
Rettig said the Missouri River at Dakota Dunes was about 5 feet
below the top of the levees on Wednesday.
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AP-NY-06-22-11 1323EDT
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