Story by Eileen Williamson | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Northwestern Division | 04.08.2024
The latest 2024 calendar year runoff forecast for the Missouri River Basin above Sioux City, Iowa shows slight improvement. “The overall lack of snowpack in both the plains and the mountains has led to a below average runoff forecast for the Missouri River Basin,” said John Remus, chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’, Missouri River Basin Water Management Division. “The soil......
Story by Eileen Williamson | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Northwestern Division | 05.05.2023
Releases from Fort Peck Dam will be reduced from 9,000 cubic feet per second to 6,000 cfs on May 22. Releases will be increased back to 9,000 cfs on June 2. If the maintenance work is completed early, releases will return to 9,000 cfs as soon as possible....
Story by Eileen Williamson | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Northwestern Division | 01.06.2023
For the 2022 calendar year, Missouri River basin runoff above Sioux City, Iowa totaled 19.3 million acre-feet, 75% of average. This was the 30th lowest annual runoff for the Missouri River Basin in 125 years of record-keeping. The ongoing drought shows little relief in sight and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers predicts runoff into the mainstem reservoir system will remain below normal.......
Story by Eileen Williamson | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Northwestern Division | 08.03.2022
While the Missouri River basin has seen improved runoff for two consecutive months, it is not enough to overcome the long-term drought persisting in much of the basin. July runoff in the Missouri River basin above Sioux City, Iowa was 3.2 million acre-feet, which is 98% of average and 0.7 MAF more than was forecast last month. This has led to an annual runoff forecast of 20.6 MAF, which is......
Story by Lance Cpl. Danielle Rodrigues | I Marine Expeditionary Force | 09.11.2015
Marines in sweat drenched t-shirts shuffle around Steele Indian School Park filling wheel-barrels, digging ditches and cleaning up graffiti as a part of a Phoenix Renews project....
Story by Spc. Brianne Roudebush | California Counterdrug Task Force | 08.28.2014
The multi-agency team hiked up steep mountainsides, climbing over fallen branches and crawling through thickets of Manzanita. Dirt clung to sweat-soaked faces as the sun beat down overhead. Eventually, the GPS indicated they had reached their destination: an old campsite used by illicit marijuana growers. Stoves, tarps, tents, clothes and all kinds of trash littered the site....
Courtesy Story | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 08.07.2013
The Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA) answered the locals’ request for new development projects by completing a karez, an underground water-supply system, and a well project in Sha Wali Kot district, Kandahar province, Aug. 7....
Story by Sgt. Kyle Wagoner | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 06.01.2013
Since its creation last year, the Nehr-e Saraj District Agriculture Training Center in Helmand province has shaped the development of the Afghanistan’s agriculture, irrigation and livestock throughout the district....
