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Oct. 4, 2019Omaha, NE |  By: AP

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers continues to release water from dams along Missouri River

After an unusually rainy September in the region, the amount
of water flowing down the lower Missouri River this year is likely to match the
2011 record.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it now expects 61 million acre feet of
water to flow down the Missouri River this year. That would equal the record set
during the prolonged 2011 flooding.

So the Corps will continue releasing massive amounts of water from the dams
along the river.

The amount of water currently being released from the Gavins Point Dam on the
South Dakota-Nebraska border - 80,000 cubic feet per second - is more than twice
what is typical for this time of year.