Continued rains and high water mean that river restrictions, lock closures and delays are now expected until mid-June. At this writing, another storm system has just pushed through the… Read More
Missouri River
Precipitation totaling between 2 to 5 inches fell over central Nebraska and much of South Dakota during the first half of last week. Because of the rain, inflows into… Read More
By Tom Waters The flood of 2019 has wreaked havoc in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska. From Omaha to Kansas City, more than 100 breaches in levees… Read More
Runoff into the upper Missouri River basin in April was 7.8 million acre feet (maf.), the third highest April runoff in the 121 years of record-keeping, the Corps of… Read More
Waves of new storms hit saturated ground throughout the Midwest, sending water barreling into already-swollen rivers, breaching levees, closing locks, flooding cities and approaching all-time flood records across… Read More
By Lynn Muench Chair, Coalition to Protect the Missouri River St. Louis, Mo. With heartbreak, we have watched our friends and neighbors… Read More
Another Missouri River flood, another round of nonsense, not always from the usual suspects. You can always count on Tony Messenger with the St. Louis Post Dispatch to contribute to the… Read More
The Upper Mississippi River remains closed to traffic above St. Louis, with the reopening dates of several locks pushed further back due to continued high water and more… Read More
Historic levels of high water and flooding, and the resulting silt, have closed or restricted commercial traffic on large parts of the nation’s river systems. Along the Gulf of… Read More
March runoff in the upper Missouri River Basin above Sioux City, Iowa, was a record 11 million acre feet (maf.), surpassing the previous record of 7.3 maf. set… Read More
