Army Corps warns of hydropower and recreation impacts as drought persists in Missouri River basin

By: Joshua Haiar

Outlets: South Dakota Searchlight

Published: April 8, 2026

Words: 363

Last Updated: 5 days, 10 hours ago

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SIOUX CITY, Iowa — The Missouri River basin is in its fourth year of drought, and federal officials say that could affect hydropower production and recreation in the upper basin states.

John Remus is the chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Missouri River Basin Water Management Division.

“Through this winter, we saw very little Plains snowpack, and that’s pretty much all gone and melted,” he said Wednesday. “Our mountain snowpack is well below …

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