JAMESTOWN, N.D. - Jamestown and Stutsman County should prepare for the same combined releases as they did during the 2009 floods, according to the Army Corps of Engineers, which changed its forecast for the James River and Pipestem Creek Friday.
The corps' had originally estimated releases of 1,800 cubic feet per second.
The new forecast recommends building emergency levees to handle combined releases of 3,200 cubic feet per sec-ond from Jamestown and Pipestem reservoirs - the same level the two dams released at the peaks of the 2009 flood.
According to the corps, the 0.5 to 1.5 inches of precipitation received in the James River Basin this week changed the situation and now reservoir pool levels could exceed 1997 levels, according to the "most likely" forecasts.
