River recreators should avoid contact with water during and for at least two weeks after flood events. Floodwaters have already impacted communities in the Yellowstone River basin, and more flooding is anticipated elsewhere in the state, such as in the Flathead River basin and Missoula County. Floodwaters can carry potentially dangerous debris and may contain chemicals and bacteria from damaged or overwhelmed wastewater treatment facilities and flooded homes, businesses, and agricultural fields.
As the Yellowstone River recedes, power is restored and access sites re-open, questions still remain for damaged property and infrastructure following record flooding, but there’s little concern for the well-being
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The state Departments of Environmental Quality, Fish, Wildlife and Parks and Public Health and Human Services caution residents against potentially contaminated floodwaters in the Yellowstone River basin.