April 10, 2019
Lake to be high
By Jill Denning Gackle
There won’t be a lack of water in Lake Sakakawea this year.
Runoff from Montana is making its way to Lake Sakakawea. Plentiful snow and March rains made for snowpack to be far greater than anticipated by the U.S. Corps of Engineers, according to Corps’ news releases.
Dam releases are scheduled to be reduced in 1,000-cubic feet per second increments from its current release of 13,000 cfs to 10,000 cfs this week. Garrison releases have not been this low since April 2010. About 43,000 cfs are coming into the lake from Fort Peck.
“The record March runoff significantly altered our 2019 upper basin runoff forecast,” said John Remus, chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Missouri River Basin Water Management Division.
There won’t be a lack of water in Lake Sakakawea this year.
Runoff from Montana is making its way to Lake Sakakawea. Plentiful snow and March rains made for snowpack to be far greater than anticipated by the U.S. Corps of Engineers, according to Corps’ news releases.
Dam releases are scheduled to be reduced in 1,000-cubic feet per second increments from its current release of 13,000 cfs to 10,000 cfs this week. Garrison releases have not been this low since April 2010. About 43,000 cfs are coming into the lake from Fort Peck.
“The record March runoff significantly altered our 2019 upper basin runoff forecast,” said John Remus, chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Missouri River Basin Water Management Division.
