This year, the Missouri River also has experienced significant periods of drought, which have lowered water levels behind some of the dams. And in addition to needs of water within the basin for ...

Don’t expect additional releases of water from the six dams along the Missouri River to assist the New Orleans area’s efforts to push back salt water, even if there was ...

Lowest of the dams, known as Gavin Point, is key to water levels on the Missouri River downstream. High flow released at Gavins Point effects river banks in South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri ...

The Missouri River Basin covers parts of ten states, and two Canadian provinces, traversing more than 2,300 miles to its end at the Mississippi River. A view of the Missouri River Basin (U.S. Army ...

YANKTON, S.D. (KTIV) - Gavins Point Dam is the last line of defense along the Missouri River when it comes to flood mitigation. But how exactly does that work? Anyone living here in 2011 remembers ...

September runoff in the Missouri River Basin above Sioux City, Iowa was 0.6 million acre-feet, 47% of the long-term average. Soil conditions in the upper Missouri River Basin continue to be very dry.

Omaha, Neb. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District operates and maintains six mainstem dams on the upper Missouri River: Gavins Point, Fort Randall, Big Bend, Oahe, Garrison and Fort Peck.

Deluges of rain and flooding last year battered the Missouri River basin. ... The Niobrara River in Nebraska breached the Spencer Dam on March 14, ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that February runoff into the Missouri River Basin above Sioux City was only 91% ...

SIOUX CITY -- The historic black-and-white photos resurfaced this summer. The pictures showing vast portions of Siouxland under water looked so old, the scenes so unfamiliar. The images, taken ...

This year, the Missouri River also has experienced significant periods of drought, which have lowered water levels behind some of the dams. And in addition to needs of water within the basin for ...