By TOMMY REZACSt. Joseph PostSome communities in Missouri are concerned that low river levels could affect their water supply.St. Joseph is one of them. Buchanan County commissioners sent a letter to U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, raising worries about the river level, which was 4.29 feet in St. Joseph as of Tuesday. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Northwest Division calls the figure 'slightly below normal.'John Remus is Chief of the Corps of Engineers' Missouri River Basin Water Management Division. He says the winter release rate at Gavins Point Dam in Yankton, SD are slightly lower than normal, but not dramatically so."We are in our winter release rate at 17,000 cubic feet per second out at Gavins Point," Remus explained. "That's slightly lower than the long-term average and the tributary inflow is a bit below normal, but it's not much below normal for winter releases."Remus says as of now, there are no water access issues at St. Joseph o
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) Flooding has been a consistent concern in the St. Joseph area, but this year, leaders of the community have the opposite worry the unusually low level of the Missouri.