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Ahead of fall public meetings, the Draft Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System Annual Operating Plan for the 2023-2024 runoff season is now available for public comment. The Missouri River Water Management Division has made the draft 2023-2024 Annual Operating Plan available at: https://www.nwd.usace.army.mil/MRWM/Public-Meetings/. The public comment period on the draft plan will close Nov. 30. The draft plan will be presented to the public in six meetings to be held in early November. Included in the plan is the possibility for test flows...
Ahead of fall public meetings, the Draft Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System Annual Operating Plan for the 2023-2024 runoff season is now available for public comment. The Missouri River Water Management Division has made the draft 2023-2024 Annual Operating Plan available at: https://www.nwd.usace.army.mil/MRWM/Public-Meetings/. The public comment period on the draft plan will close Nov. 30. The draft plan will be presented to the public in six meetings to be held in early November. Included in the plan is the possibility for test flows...
Ahead of fall public meetings, the Draft Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System Annual Operating Plan for the 2023-2024 runoff season is now available for public comment. The Missouri River Water Management Division has made the draft 2023-2024 Annual Operating Plan available at: https://www.nwd.usace.army.mil/MRWM/Public-Meetings/. The public comment period on the draft plan will close Nov. 30. The draft plan will be presented to the public in six meetings to be held in early November....
Omaha, NE - Releases from Fort Peck Dam will be reduced from 9,000 cubic feet per second to 6,000 cfs on May 22. Releases will be increased back to 9,000 cfs on June 2. If the maintenance work is completed early, releases will return to 9,000 cfs as soon as possible. Maintenance at the Fort Peck powerhouse, on the power tunnel, requires Units 1, 2, and 3 to be unavailable. “The lowered releases will not have a significant impact on reservoir elevations at Fort Peck,” said John Remus, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers chief’ Missouri River Basin...
Omaha, NE - Planned release reductions from Fort Peck Dam will begin the end of this week. The release schedule for Sept. 28 is 8,000 cfs and will be stepped down to 4,000 cfs by Oct. 2. "We delayed release reductions until the end of September. This provided more irrigation reliability at the end of the growing season. The action had minimal impacts in the upper basin, no impacts on the Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System's overall ability to meet its authorized purposes and no impacts to...
This week, we will be hosting our #MissouriRiver public meetings at Fort Peck, MT; Bismarck, ND; Fort Pierre, SD; Sioux City, IA; Smithville, MO; Nebraska City, NE; and St. Louis, MO. These in-person meetings will adhere to the following COVID-19 meeting guidelines in accordance with the Department of Defense: Meeting attendance, including presenters cannot exceed 50. Attendees will be required to wear masks covering both the mouth and nose. Please do not attend if: You are experiencing symptoms including fever or cough, You are awaiting the...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers North Dakota Regulatory Office is holding a workshop to provide information on the Regulatory Program. The workshop will be held at the Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library, in Meeting Room B on March 16, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. It is open to all interested parties including the public, consultants, environmental organizations, as well as Federal, state and local agencies. The workshop will focus on the USACE Permitting Overview including, permitting authority under the Clean Water Act and the Rivers and...
