YANKTON, S.D. (KTIV) - Protecting the environment is a priority for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and at Gavins Point Dam and Power plant near Yankton, South Dakota, finding ways to do that at the ...

YANKTON, S.D. (KTIV) - Earlier this summer, more than a dozen communities in Northwest Iowa and Southeast South Dakota were flooded after heavy rain fell across the upper Midwest. Flood waters rose ...

YANKTON, S.D. | Resurfacing on the road crossing the Gavins Point Dam west of Yankton will limit roadway options until Aug. 25, according to a news release from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Crest ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Gavins Point Dam releases will be reduced in late November as flow support to navigation ends. Releases from the dam, according to a statement, are currently 32,000 cubic feet per ...

May 18, 2023 May 18, 2023 Updated May 18, 2023 0 The Gavins Point Dam, which cost $51 million to build, is 8,700 feet long and 74 feet high. In this October 2019 photo, the swollen Missouri River is ...

At 8 a.m. Wednesday, the gates at Gavins Point Dam will close with all releases passing though the powerhouse. Releases have been lowered from 24,000 cubic feet per second to 20,000 cfs, according to ...

Water runs through the spillway at the Gavins Point Dam in South Dakota in April 2019. Add another season to the higher-than-normal levels on the Missouri River. Flows on the Missouri River are likely ...

Flooding may not be over for farmers along the Missouri River. The Army Corps of Engineers increasing water levels this week at Gavins Point Dam. That’s a dam in the Southeast Corner of South Dakota ...

YANKTON, S.D. - The reservoir at Gavins Point Dam dropped a half-foot in the past 24 hours the dam near Yankton continues to discharge record releases from the Missouri River. The U.S. Army Corps of ...

Instead, Gavins Point’s main purpose is to smooth out widely fluctuating discharges from the much larger hydroelectric dam immediately upstream. If Gavins Point weren’t in place to do so, river levels ...

While drought conditions continue in Mid-Missouri, widespread rains along the upper reaches of the Missouri River prompted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to announce Tuesday they would continue ...