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News Release <br />iJS Army Corps <br />af Engineers <br />rdorthwestern Division <br />P'ublic Affairs Office <br />12565 West Center Road <br />Omaha, Nebraska 68144-3869 <br />Phone: (402) 697-2552 <br />Fax: (402) 697-2554 <br />Contact: Paul Johnston <br />(402) 697-2552 <br />Larry Cieslik <br />(402) 697-2675 <br />Date: October 11, 2005 <br />Water- Management Monthly 1Vews Release <br />C)MAHA - Releases from the Missouri River system of dams and reservoirs were reduced <br />beginning Oct. 5 to bring to the end the shortest navigation season since the reservoirs were filled in <br />1967. Depending on downstream tributary contributions, Missouri River stages will drop 4 to 5 feet <br />from Sioux City to the mouth near St. Louis. <br />Despite rain storms in the latter part of September, drought conditions persist over much of the <br />upper ba3in with only 78 percent of normal runoff recorded so far this year. <br />R.unoff above Sioux City, Iowa, in September was 56 percent of normal. "There has been <br />enough rain downstream to allow us to maintain lower releases from the reservoirs, but the dry <br />conditioris upstream have kept Oahe and Fort Peck level while second lowest runoff into Garrison <br />contributed to it falling a foot last month," said Larry Cieslik, Chief of the Water Management office <br />in Omaha. <br />Releases from Gavins Point Dam will be gradually reduced in October from the current <br />24,000 ci:s to 9,000 cfs with the closing of the commercial navigation season. <br />The current runoff forecast for 2005 is 19.5 million acre feet (MAF), 77 percent of normal, <br />compareci to the normal of 25.2 MAF. <br />-- more -- <br />--_