The core learned very little from 2011 they are still leaving goinging into the winter month with to much water in the lake
I would like to point out exhibit A. the fact that thre were basically no sand bars all of last summer because they were blowing water through that damn balls to the wall all summer.
Exhibit B. The fact that they cranked up the dam balls to the walls this year as soon as they possibly could.
The simple fact is once the river starts to freeze, has froze or has just unfroze the corp gets constrained on how much water they can throw through her because if they put too much water through her at that point in time you can end up with a 2009 situation where you get big giant chunks of ice all piled up somewhere and everybody who doesn't know shit about the river starts complaining that the corp is putting too much water through the dam. Those guys end up walking a tightrope between one extreme in the other and it's always entertaining that a lot of times it's the same people on both damn sides complaining about both damn things. One day they're complaining that the lake is too low and they're not getting the fish they want and the next day they're complaining that the corp is filled the damn up too high and now they have to let all the water out and now their house is flooding. If they ran the lake as low as people like you would like to see it apparently we would be riding the razor's edge of killing off the Fishery pretty much 2 or 3 times a decade cuz that would just lead to drops inevitably every few years that would push the Lakes level below the critical level needed to support the bait fish.
And in the end let's be realistic here have you drove and paid attention to Bismarck Dyke system because that tells a person more than anything! When the levees in your city are so God damn small that you cant actually tell your on one that's a sign the worst the corp has done in damn near 70 years wasn't very bad actually. I mean seriously would anybody in Fargo or Grand Forks look at this and and even recognize it as a river Levee because they have real levies where we have these little baby mounds of dirt that you could damn near build with a shovel and they are built higher higher than the 2011 flood.
