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Originally Posted by Zucchini I as far as I know there are no locks on the Missouri river and there is minimal barge traffic North of Yankton, and there 4 dams above Yankton in South Dakota, at least 2 more in North Dakota, and I believe at least 1 in Montana.
They are there for power generation and flood control.
So maybe old Kruschev should have moved to North Dakota. |
Barge traffic no longer goes past Sioux City, if they even make it that far. A lot of debate has been started over this lately, the lower states on the Missourri (Missourri, Iowa, Nebraska) want more water to be released by the dams to increase commerce, the upper states (South Dakota, North Dakota, and Montana) want less water released to aid our economies, mostly fishing. This has been brought to the district court a couple times over the last couple of years. The Army Corps of Engineers still manages the dams, we in South Dakota want control turned over to the states or to have the current plans for managing the water flow changed. I personally think that they should be handed over to the state, but then again that is the option that most benefits me.