The 2019 runoff forecast in the Missouri River Basin above Sioux City, Iowa, is 28.4 million acre feet, 112 percent of normal, according to the Corps of Engineers’ Missouri… Read More
Missouri River
Among the many speakers at the Missouri River Navigators meeting in Kansas City February 13, Jon Stephens, the new president and CEO of Port KC, told the crowd about… Read More
If there’s one thing Missouri River stakeholders want shippers to know, it’s that the river is open for business and has been for a long time. That statement… Read More
The Corps of Engineers announced February 7 that all 2018 stored flood waters were evacuated from the Missouri River mainstem reservoir system as of January 29. The full 16.3… Read More
The 2019 meeting of the Missouri River Navigators will again be held in Kansas City, Mo., at the National Weather Service Training Center on February 13. Read More
The Corps of Engineers is preparing the Missouri River mainstem system for the 2019 runoff season. Current releases from Gavins Point Dam—the lowest of five large dams in… Read More
This week, the Old Boat Column journeys up the Missouri River to the historic river town of Hermann. This scene shows a typical day along the waterfront during… Read More
Higher-than-average releases from all Missouri River Mainstem System projects, including Gavins Point Dam, will continue through November, the Corps of Engineers reported November 5. “Gavins Point releases… Read More
The Kansas City, Mo., we know today is a diverse and populated metropolitan area on the Missouri River, the nation’s longest river that extends from the Rocky Mountains… Read More
The Corps of Engineers temporarily reduced reservoir releases into the Missouri River in response to heavy rains and runoff in Kansas and Missouri, the Missouri River Basin Water Management… Read More