OMAHA, Neb. -- September runoff in the upper Missouri River Basin was well-below average, continuing the trend of below-average runoff in 2024. “Although Montana precipitation was wetter-than-normal in September, much of the basin was very dry and warm, causing the September runoff in all reaches above Gavins Point to be well-below average,” said John Remus, chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Missouri River Basin Water Management Division.
“Runoff in the basin below Sioux City has also been well-below average during late summer and fall, so System releases from Gavins Point Dam have been increased to maintain the flow support level to meet downstream navigation targets,” Remus added.
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It’s the season to be spooky and there are few things spookier than a swarm of bats bursting out of a haunted house for a classic jump scare. Thinking of bats as merely creepy creatures roaming the night makes for good entertainment and spooky Halloween folklore.
But bats are one of the most unique and misunderstood animals on our planet. Today, North American bats face an existential threat from a disease called White-nose syndrome.
On a balmy morning in late September, a motley group took a walk in the woods around Harry S. Truman Lake. The crew made for a strange sight; loaded down with tools, chainsaws, water bottles, and accompanied by a few horses. To a random passerby they looked more like the pioneers who followed the Missouri River westward, than a modern-day gathering—but this group wasn’t there to blaze a trail, they were there to preserve one.
Brig. Gen. Bill Hannan, Northwestern Division (NWD) commander, takes a boat tour of Tribal fishing sites, Oct.1 2024. The tour was part of a groundbreaking ceremony hosted by the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission and the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs celebrating efforts to improve these access sites along the Columbia River.
The USACE Kansas City District, in conjunction with Lane Construction, conduct a stoplog closure test at the Kansas City Levee Project.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been making improvements to the seven levee system along both banks of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers in the Kansas City Metropolitan area for the past 15 years. The Kansas Citys, Missouri and Kansas Levee program consists of seven levee units (Argentine, Armourdale, Central Industrial District, Fairfax-Jersey Creek, North Kansas City, East Bottoms and Birmingham), totaling 60 miles of levees and floodwalls.
The $529M project has been funded to completion by Congress through the Bi-Partisan Budget Act of 2018.
