3/29/18

Mike Rounds on full freak out about Missouri River


Senator Mike Rounds (earth hater-SD) has been tweeting conditions on the upper Missouri River basin every day and some of his twitter followers are rounding to begin sandbagging below the Oahe Dam.

According to a source close to the Rounds family Mike had been considering resigning from the US Senate but has now settled nicely into the Trump swamp. No stranger to swamps the former governor, after having built a house in a swamp that flooded in 2011, received a generous self-reimbursement from insurance coverage underwritten by his own company knowing Lake Sharpe is filling with silt.

A federal judge has ruled in favor of flooding plaintiffs for each year except for 2011.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in cooperation with the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, will hold an open house on Tuesday, April 3 from 5 to 7p.m. at the Oacoma Community Center, 100 E. 3rd Street in Oacoma, SD to seek comments on potential opportunities to address erosion that is threatening the town of Lower Brule. There will be a brief, formal presentation at 5:30 p.m. The purpose of this study is to evaluate alternatives for shoreline protection to reduce the continued loss of land which is threatening the town of Lower Brule’s sewage lagoons, roadways and other infrastructure. This feasibility study is being conducted under authority of Section 203 of the Water Resources Development Act of 2000, as amended, also known as the Tribal Partnership Program.
Read the rest of that here.

Ice floes are currently bashing bridge moorings in Montana as flood crests move downstream. The US Geological Survey is reporting the Yellowstone River has crested at Glendive but is filling the storage above the Garrison Dam with silt, too. Widespread downstream flooding is not expected unless 2018 La Niña-driven Spring rains exceed those of 2011.

The poisoned Big Sioux River is out of its banks at Dakota Dunes where part-time resident earth hater Dan Lederman is likely preparing another frivolous lawsuit even though litigation costs to federal agencies are straining budgets. Sloppy record keeping continues to plague counties prone to flooding.

The death of the Missouri River ecosystem in South Dakota began with the European invasion, was accelerated by the Homestake Mining Company and sealed with the construction of the main stem dams.


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