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• "By the time we hit the spring, our forecast is telling us that we expect to see our largest three reservoirs -- Fort Peck, Garrison and Oahe -- come in about 10 feet below what we normally see, and so we could see some reduced levels of services," corps spokeswoman Monique Farmer said.
• Fort Peck is in Montana, Garrison in North Dakota and Oahe in both Dakotas. There will be minimal releases from those reservoirs over the winter. The corps will conduct checks next March and July to determine what level of water to release to downstream areas.
• Record flooding in the summer of 2011 flushed a large number of rainbow smelt through the Oahe Dam, drastically reducing the amount that game fish such as walleye had to eat and harming the fishery. If basin runoff remains low in the spring, the corps plans to give the lake preference over Lake Sakakawea behind Garrison Dam when it comes to holding back water to aid fish spawning, Farhat said.
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AP News in Brief
As region suffers under Sandy, NYC sputters back to life with subways, traffic
• NEW YORK (AP) -- The cleanup of miles of New Jersey shorefront ripped apart by Superstorm Sandy has just begun, but New York City moved closer to resuming its normal frenetic pace by getting back its vital subways.
• New Yorkers began lining up at subway stops by 5 a.m. Thursday, an hour before the storm-crippled subways were to start running. The predawn commuters waiting at platforms included construction workers, shop owners and executives.
• The decision to reopen undamaged parts of the nation's largest transit system came as the region struggled to find its way back from a storm that killed more than 70 people and left more than 5 million without power.
• Two of the region's main airports opened Wednesday and officials promised that the third, LaGuardia Airport, would return to service Thursday. Actors and eager audiences brought darkened Broadway theaters back to life. And New Yorkers packed on to buses that returned for the first time to city streets since the storm, joining a throng of gridlocked traffic that navigated the city without working stop lights.
• Across the region, people stricken by the storm pulled together, in some cases providing comfort to those left homeless, in others offering hot showers and electrical outlets for charging cellphones to those without power.
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