The Corps of Engineers continues to release a lot of water from the upper basin of the Missouri River.
John Remus is chief of Missouri River Basin Water management and spoke with Brownfield at the recent Corps meeting in Jefferson City, Missouri, “The reason we’re releasing what we’re releasing is to evacuate the flood control storage in the reservoirs so we’re fully prepared for the runoff in 2020 in the upper basin. We are looking at fairly wet soils throughout most of the basins and VERY wet soils in the upper basins.”
Flood management remains the Corps’ top priority, “If we can
release more water later into the fall we’re going to try and do that.
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