The 2011 Missouri River flood looms over everything the corps does with its mainstem dams now. That flood caught the corps by surprise when heavy snowpack combined with spring rains to overwhelm ...

Beau Schilling (Akaska, SD) and Brady Gere (Pierre, SD) took second place, also with a full 15-fish limit, totaling 50 lbs 6 oz. Their weights built steadily: 15-05 on Day 1, 16-02 on Day 2, and an ...

Missouri River dams have made South Dakota a uniquely good place to find paddlefish. Paddlefish have been around for millions of years and they still roam freely throughout most of the Mississippi ...

South Dakota Missouri River dam dimensions. Gavins Point Dam: Near Yankton, completed 1957, 74 feet high, 8,700 feet long. Fort Randall Dam: Near Pickstown, completed 1956, 165 feet high, 10,700 ...

Army Corps of Engineers expects water releases from reservoirs on the Missouri to be above average through the summer. Skip to content NOWCAST KMBC 9 News at Noon ...

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 ...

LUBBOCK, Texas - I want to respond to your Nov. 29 editorial titled, "Missouri dams are beneficial." On Nov. 15, I presented a lecture at the Missouri River Institute, University of South Dakota ...

CROFTON, Neb. (KTIV) - Gavins Point Dam, near Yankton, South Dakota, is the last dam along the Missouri River. Construction began in 1952 along the Missouri River.

1 / 8 Show Caption + Hide Caption – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District’s Fort Randall Dam, located near Pickstown, South Dakota November 27, 2023. Fort Randall Dam began operating in ...

Oct. 26—OMAHA, Neb. — Lower than average releases from five dams in the upper Missouri River Basin are expected this winter due to low precipitation and ongoing drought conditions, ...