Mark Levin said the dams upstream are “eco-green” friendly and this is not helping the flooding.. Is this true?
I don’t know what he means by eco-green. Garrison Dam in North Dakota is a mammoth earth-filled dam, but I’m not sure about Montana’s Fort Peck or South Dakota’s Oahe.
They are all huge dams and back up the Missouri River into reservoirs 175-200 miles long EACH.
This year there is just too much water both from spring rains and incredible winter snowpack-—the dams aren’t breaking or anything, they are just filled to capacity and the excess water runs over the spillways.
The big flood news out of North Dakota the past few days is in Minot, on a completely different river system, the comparatively tiny Souris River which flows down to Minot out of Canada. This year the little Souris is big and roaring and is really going to lay waste to Minot, a college & USAF base town of around 50,000 people. Crap, I saw one headline that indicated 40,000 people were going to be evacuated. That doesn’t leave a lot of property, or lives, untouched.
Mark is indicating the flooding could have all been prevented. He was quoting some damn leftist whack job in the Army Corp of Engineers as saying this was the way things use to be anyway. The dams are all open because of these idiots!