View MSAC’s 48-minute video, Reservoir Sustainability: The “Impossible” Takes a Little Longer. It features people’s stories at seven locations around the Lewis and Clark Lake Region, with reservoir sedimentation information provided by civil and environmental engineering professor Rollin Hotchkiss.

Reservoir Sustainability: The “Impossible” Takes a Little Longer

The individual videos from “Reservoir Sustainability: The ‘Impossible’ Takes a Little Longer” are linked below. In 2019, people around Lewis and Clark Lake told MSAC how sedimentation was impacting their properties, water districts, recreation and more. We learned how the flooding of 2019 and earlier was taking its toll, as sedimentation contributes to the high waters. Follow the links below to the videos. In the first video, Tim Cowman, describes what is happening on the Missouri River above and below Gavins Point Dam.

A River’s Pursuit of Equilibrium – Sediment Accumulation and Deficits

Delta Changes Lives – Policy Supports Buy-Outs & Band-Aids

Bazile Creek Out of its Banks

With Water, Life Thrives

Angling for Answers

Engineering a Sustainable Solution

Mission on the Missouri

Past Meetings

MSAC’s primary mission is to educate. Over the past several years, MSAC has recorded many of its meetings and webinars – see the list below.

2021
August 16, 2021 – Stakeholder Update of Solutions Workshop facilitated by Rollin Hotchkiss

July 14, 2021 – Webinar with Author Tyler Kelly on Holding Back the River

June 15, 2021 – Solutions Workshop

May 11, 2021 – 20th Annual Membership Meeting speaker – Michael Lawson – Pick-Sloan Impact on Missouri River Sioux

2020
May 5, 2020 – WEBINAR – MSAC 19th Annual Membership Meeting – Presenter – Paul Boyd, US Army Corps of Engineers

May 14, 2020 – WEBINAR – Life After the Flood – Presenter – Nathan Schaepe, US Geological Survey’s Nebraska Water Science Center

2019
April 23, 2019 – MSAC 18th Annual Membership Meeting – Presenter Paul Boyd, US Army Corps of Engineers

July 25, 2019 – Stakeholder Meeting & Scoping Review with US Army Corps of Engineers

Dec. 12, 2019 – WEBINAR – Reservoir Sediment Management: Building a Legacy of Sustainable Water Storage Reservoirs – Presenter – Tim Randle, Chair, National Reservoir Sedimentation & Sustainability Team

2018
March 29, 2018 – MSAC 17th Annual Membership Meeting – Presenter Nathan Schaepe – “Determining proppant suitability for sediment from the Niobrara and Missouri Rivers.”

July 20, 2018 – Lewis and Clark Lake Stakeholder Workshop facilitated by Rollin Hotchkiss

July 20, 2018 – Lewis and Clark Lake Stakeholder Workshop – Stakeholder Segment

Sept 21, 2018 – Lewis and Clark Lake Stakeholder Meeting with US Army Corps of Engineers

2017
March 7, 2017 – MSAC 16th Annual Membership Meeting – Presenter Jason Ziss of Kurtz Bros. Sediment Collector Technology