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• Last summer, heavy rains and snowfall contributed to a historic Missouri River flood that swamped portions of several river cities, broke through levees, overran an interstate highway and caused hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of damage from Montana to Missouri.
• North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple said the magnitude of last summer's Missouri flooding was too great for improved water data collection to make much difference.
• However, having better information about water runoff can help the Missouri's network of dams handle flooding and would give property owners more time to react to flood conditions, Dalrymple said.
• "Days do matter in these things. The amount of time that you have to release more water does decrease ... the flood crest, and that, of course, is the goal," Dal

rymple said.
• For example, North Dakota's Water Commission has about 30 water measuring stations in the Missouri's drainage basin, while the corps has about a half-dozen.
• Representatives from the eight states met Wednesday at Bismarck State College in Bismarck, N.D., to discuss flood management strategy. Dalrymple and South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard attended in person, while Schweitzer took part by phone.
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