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RIVERDALE, ND – While the Army Corps of Engineers is working to move water out of its 6 mainstem Missouri River dams this summer, seeking a return to levels below the 6% capacity “exclusive flood control” level, many people have been questioning whether or not the Corps should try to move off even more, in [...]
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BISMARCK, ND – While much of the state’s attention has shifted to epic flood situation in Minot, experts are saying that the Missouri River in Bismarck has now crested, at 19.02 feet. However, officials are warning residents to remain “prepared and vigilant,” as the high release rates from Garrison Dam will continue for at least [...]
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BISMARCK, ND – According to the latest figures released by the Omaha Army Corps of Engineers, the Garrison Reservoir’s outflows should finally start to outpace inflows at Garrison on July 4. Barring any unforeseen, massive storms, the highest elevation Garrison is expected to reach between now and then is 1854.8 feet, 0.8 feet above its [...]
BISMARCK, ND – Bismarck-Mandan residents are sighing relief today, as latest reports from the US Geological Survey show that the Missouri flood waters should crest tomorrow at 19.1 feet, almost 1.5 feet below earlier projections. However, inflows into Garrison and Oahe reservoirs have increased dramatically, even as inflows into Fort Peck have slowed. This morning, [...]
BISMARCK, ND – As the increased water releases from Garrison Dam begin to make their way into Bismarck-Mandan, the Missouri River rose to a level of 18.8 feet this morning at 10am. the National Weather Service’s Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (AHPS) expects the river will continue to rise, reaching 19 feet on Wednesday, June 22. [...]
MANDAN, ND – “This is a man-made event,” State Representative Todd Porter, R-Mandan, told Scott Hennen and his listeners on yesterday’s broadcast. Chairman of the ND House Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Porter sent a letter to Omaha District Commander Robert Ruch, questioning the Corps’ management and timing on decisions to release water from the [...]
BISMARCK, ND – As Bismarck-Mandan prepares for the impact of today’s increased Garrison Dam release flows, which the Army Corps of Engineers will crank up to 150,000 cfs today, Corps Disaster Management Director Mark Clark sought to reassure the public by stating that despite forecast thunderstorms this weekend, the Corps “at this time sees no [...]
BISMARCK, ND – North Dakota National Guard’s Quick Response Teams (QRTs) in Bismarck-Mandan got a workout yesterday responding to six different calls, placing more than 2,400 sandbags in a five hour period on a forty foot section of levee in Southport. Currently, the NDNG has 6 QRTs and 3 Levee Patrols on duty in the [...]
BISMARCK, ND – “Just because Bismarck-Mandan is well protected, and just because Bismarck-Mandan is handling this flow very well, we do not consider that any reason for the Corps to add to the releases,” Governor Jack Dalrymple briefed officials at this morning’s flood Bimarck-Mandan flood update. “We do not want to see one more drop [...]
BISMARCK, ND – “Nobody really knows what the Missouri River is doing to its bed or to the structures built on it,” environmental history expert Robert Schneiders told Plains Daily in an exclusive interview on the shape and nature of the Missouri River. “Those can only be realized after the flood waters subside.” Schneiders, an [...]