Water releases from Fort Peck Dam in Montana lowered at the end of September 2022
9/21/2022 12:39:38 AM
CATEGORIES:
Agriculture
Relief, Response & Restrictions
Water Supply & Quality
AFFECTED AREAS:
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Montana
Garfield County, MT
McCone County, MT
Petroleum County, MT
Phillips County, MT
Valley County, MT
North Dakota
Nebraska
South Dakota
Start Date: 9/19/2022
- End Date: 3/1/2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that the flow from Fort Peck Dam would be reduced from 7,800 cubic feet per second to 4,000 cfs. The agency later announced that the flow reduction would take place at the end of September to allow farmers downstream more water. Keeping the water release higher through September would slightly reduce power generation capacity through the upcoming winter and slightly lower the Fort Peck Lake pool at the beginning of the 2023 runoff season, but would have only minimal impacts in the upper basin, and no impacts on the Missouri River mainstem reservoir system’s overall ability to meet its authorized purposes given the change will not impact total system storage, according to John Remus, chief of the Missouri River Basin Water Management Division.
Montana Standard (Butte, Mont.), Sept. 19, 2022
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