YANKTON, S.D. (
KELO.com
) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are making a change to releases from Gavins Point Dam in response to flooding rains across eastern South Dakota.
John Remus, chief of the Missouri River Water Basin Management Office in Omaha, says they will be looking at the flooding during the weekend.
Releases have been running at seventy thousand cubic feet per second for several weeks.
He says they are trying to avoid flooding highways near Omaha.
Remus says they plan to step up releases from Gavins Point next week.
Remus says flood storage in the upstream reservoirs has increased about three hundred thousand-acre feet in the past few days.
(Jerry Oster, WNAX, contributed this report.)
