Registered: Jul 2006
Location: Turtle Mountains, ND
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Today the spillway gates opened for the first time since the Garrison Dam in ND was built about 60 years ago. All communities downstream are building dikes and sandbagging homes. The water is going to stretch from bluff to bluff and reach to the mouth of the river. It will be like this for most of the summer. Going to mess up coon hunting in the river valley.

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I hear you they got them open at fort peck also..... The yellow stone is out its banks and almost all the timber is flooded. river is closed to boats. we have been have to try to find high areas to coon hunt.

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Registered: Jul 2006
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I think it's going to be a domino for the spillways down the river. I'm looking forward to being in Fairview for the Mondak club's hunt next week. Hopefully the water is deep enough to flush out the coons so the dogs don't feel they need to swim the valley looking for them. The rivers are ugly now.

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I have been having good luck all week hunting the edge of the water treeing coons. I wood bring some hip waders though.

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I suppose kittens in cottonwood dens out in the water will perish. The best dens where I hunt will be over a mile from dry land.

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Rick
I'm up working @ Beulah building a water tower, staying In New salem, Might try to catch a ride to Fort Ransom to the hunt if you are going I can meet ya in Bismark

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Rick
I'm up working @ Beulah building a water tower, staying In New salem, Might try to catch a ride to Fort Ransom to the hunt if you are going I can meet ya in Bismark

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The spillway gates have been opened I believe for all dams on the Missouri in MT, ND and SD. The lower valley is going to be inundated.

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Hard to believe the YS river is that high. I rafted down it middle of last week. Snow must be melting fast.

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Most all the river valley is still under water. So I went to greener pasture for hunting.

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man i live in ne arkansas n we had a bad flood back in the spring and the river bottoms where we hunt is still flooded maybe we will get to hunt the bottoms by sept but we also been hunting the little thickets and ditches most part we been haveing pretty good luck

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Registered: May 2010
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Went down to Omaha last weekend to the college world series.
the MO river is crazy high. It runs right along side the interstate for several miles thru Sioux City so we got a good look at it there. There is a brigde that has depth markings on one of the pilings and normally when the river is running at its highest it shows 25-30 feet. A week ago today it was reading 43 feet. One of the exits into town is under about 6 feet of water and obviously closed. Between there and Omaha there was one area where the DOT was sand bagging (6'x6' bags) on the shoulder of the interstate on both sides cause water was about to come onto the road. I-29 is closed for the last 20 miles into Omaha so we went accross at Blair Ne. The river is normally pretty narrow there, but is flooded out to at least 4x normal. Gavins Point dam, the last one on the river is currently releasing I believe 150,000 cubic feet of water per minute. I don't know how that translates into gallons, but it sure is impressive to see shooting out of the dam. Doesn't sound like there are any plans to slow the releases from the dams anytime soon either.
Fortunately the smaller tributaries from the East are not currently flooding any more or the problems south of here would be quite a bit worse.

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