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PIERRE -- Eight governors have signed a resolution asking the Army Corps of Engineers to do what it can feasibly and legally to conserve water in the Missouri River reservoirs.
The resolution follows a Missouri River Summit convened by South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds in February. He proposed changing the barge navigation season below Sioux City, Iowa to save water in the largest and northernmost reservoirs, which are 20 feet to 30 feet below normal elevation because of several years of drought and below-normal runoff from mountain snowmelt.
Unable to agree on Rounds' proposal, governors or their representatives agreed to draft a resolution calling for water conservation.
State officials realize minimal water is flowing into the Missouri River from Montana, said Mark Johnston, Rounds' chief of staff.
Governors of South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri signed the resolution.
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