Thursday,  May 24, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 315 • 13 of 35 •  Other Editions

Corps: States can help improve flood forecasting
• DALE WETZEL,Associated Press

• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer had early warnings that last summer's Missouri River flooding would be severe. As he read accounts of downstream flooding in North Dakota, Schweitzer was getting state agency reports that a large snow melt in western Montana's Rocky Mountains -- a major source of Missouri water -- had barely started.
• Todd Sando, North Dakota's chief state engineer, had similar worries about the potential torrent of melting snow and the shrinking room for storing the water in the

Missouri's reservoirs.
• The information Schweitzer and Sando were relying on was collected by state agencies and was not readily available to others.
• On Wednesday, a group of officials from eight Missouri River states endorsed providing more comprehensive water data that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can use to improve its flooding fore

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