Pierre residents blaming GOP for flooding potential

Yesterday's report: pic.twitter.com/MfFCiuGgmx

— Senator Mike Rounds (@SenatorRounds) April 19, 2018

The silt filling the Missouri River main stem dams has significantly reduced the storage for runoff in the upper basin.

A planned US Army Corps of Engineers real-time network of snow pack and precipitation monitors has not been funded by Congress leaving Senator Mike Rounds (earth hater-SD) wondering whether he'll be sandbagging his property again. The river/reservoir system had 64 million acre-feet stored at this point in 2011.

A crew of five from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Northwest Division from headquarters in Omaha flew up Tuesday in a federal twin turboprop which they used to follow the river to Bismarck after noon Wednesday for a similar meeting. They were joined in Pierre by a handful of Army Corps river managers stationed at Lake Oahe, the second biggest dam in the system. Late Wednesday, The Associated Press reported out of Helena, Montana, on new flooding in that region caused by runoff after a winter that approached or exceeded record snowfall across much of Montana. Water was washing out roads, flooding fields and spilling rivers and streams over their banks much of the northern part of the state. Montana Gov. Steve Bullock declared a flooding emergency Wednesday in seven counties, the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation and the town of Chester.

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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 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.