Fort Peck Reservoir is forecast to rise less than a foot by the end of June, even though outflows will be reduced from 10,000 cubic feet per second to 9,000 cfs on June 8, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The Corps released its May runoff update for the Upper Missouri River Basin, which was 3.4 million acre feet, 100% of average.

“Heavy rainfall in western and central North Dakota and South Dakota during May supplemented the mountain snowmelt runoff,” said John Remus, chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Missouri River Basin Water Management Division, in a statement. “May runoff in the upper basin above Sioux City was average; however, mountain snowpack is melting more rapidly than normal. As a result, the runoff forecast later this summer and fall has been reduced sl

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