PIERRE — Weeks of heavy rain has adjusted forecasted runoff into the Missouri River, but the river’s large reservoirs still have plenty of room for rain. Ryan Larson with the Missouri River Basin Water Management Division says the reservoir system has filled up a little…
Mike Swenson, also with the Corps says the current system storage is at 51-point-five million acre feet…
Swenson says the Oahe reservoir isn’t expected to go any higher…
July is normally the final Corps of Engineers update on runoff, but given the drought conditions monthly update will continue through summer.
