This is something I have never seen before, nor has anybody else since this dam was built in the mid 50's. The Missouri River is collecting so much snow melt and rain from Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota, that they had to open ALL six, 20 foot diameter gates, to get the dam ready for 2 up river dam releases, in Montana. Water flowing out of this gates is 540,000,000 cubic feet an hr, and they suspect this is going to last well into August. I have only seen one gate opened at 6 feet, so this was something else. You can walk above the gates, and the whole thing was vibrating like nothing else. We drove 2.5 hrs to see this lol. Here is some pics.
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And the last one is the spill way, its about 18 inches from the top, about to spill over haha...
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Its flooding all of the low lying areas of the state capital, and usually the train bridge is about 25 above the water, not anymore, the have about 8 feet till the tracks get wet. Just thought I'd share
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