Hype for the Future 144E: City of Vermillion, South Dakota

Introduction The City of Vermillion, South Dakota, serves as the county seat of Clay County in the State of South Dakota. The community is located along South Dakota Routes 19 and 50, with the former in a north-south direction and the latter in an east-west direction. Regardless of circumstances, the community is connected primarily to Madison along Route 19 northbound and to Yankton along Route 50 westbound. Eastbound Route 50 provides access to Iowa Route 3 and southbound Route 19 provides […]

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Hype for the Future 144E: City of Vermillion, South Dakota

Introduction The City of Vermillion, South Dakota, serves as the county seat of Clay County in the State of South Dakota. The community is located along South Dakota Routes 19 and 50, with the form…

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Hype for the Future 143H: Missouri River in Eastern Montana

Overview Downstream from the notable Missouri Breaks, the Eastern Montana portion of the Missouri River is notably paralleled by modern United States Route 2 west of the North Dakota state line, with isolated communities such as Glasgow and Fort Peck located within the region. The Fort Peck Indian Reservation is largely associated with Valley County, with Daniels County to the northeast identified as home to the community of Scobey. Interestingly, much of the same characteristics downstream […]

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Hype for the Future 143H: Missouri River in Eastern Montana

Overview Downstream from the notable Missouri Breaks, the Eastern Montana portion of the Missouri River is notably paralleled by modern United States Route 2 west of the North Dakota state line, wi…

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Hype for the Future 143G: Upper Missouri River Breaks

Overview Within the central portion of the State of Montana, the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument is a notable feature of the area, with the headwaters of the Missouri River located firmly within the Rocky Mountains. Today, the area of the Upper Missouri River Breaks is formed from the associated badlands and buttes of the region formed from the fragmented portions of the central third of the State of Montana. Though the particular region in the state is generally considered […]

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Hype for the Future 143G: Upper Missouri River Breaks

Overview Within the central portion of the State of Montana, the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument is a notable feature of the area, with the headwaters of the Missouri River located fi…

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Dry outlook persists for Missouri River despite early spring runoff

Despite above average February runoff, the full-year runoff forecast above Sioux City, Iowa is 20.6 MAF, 80% of average. The six mainstem power plants generated 425 million kWh of electricity in February, below the typical February energy generation of 614 million kWh.

#drought #water #MissouriRiver

https://www.nwd.usace.army.mil/media/news-releases/article/4422917/dry-outlook-persists-for-missouri-river-despite-early-spring-runoff-navigation/

A creek with #AtomicWaste from WWII is linked to increased #cancer risk

By Ronnie Cohen, July 21, 2025

Excerpt: "Children who lived near a #SaintLouis creek polluted with #radioactive #AtomicBomb waste from the 1940s through the 1960s were more likely to be diagnosed with cancer over their lifetimes than children who lived farther from the waterway, a new study has found.

"The findings, published in JAMA Network Open, corroborate worries that neighbors of #ColdwaterCreek have long held about the #MissouriRiver tributary where generations of children played.

Radioactive waste found at #Missouri elementary school

" 'We actually saw something quite dramatic, not only elevated risk of cancer, but one that increased steadily in a sort of dose-response manner the closer the childhood residents got to Coldwater Creek,' said the study's senior author, Marc Weisskopf, an epidemiology professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

"As part of the Manhattan Project, #MallinckrodtChemicalWorks processed uranium in St. Louis for the development of an atomic bomb. By the mid-1940s, according to historians, the company began to haul its radioactive waste north of the city, leaving it in open steel drums, unattended and exposed to the elements, next to Coldwater Creek."

Read more:
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/21/nx-s1-5474883/nuclear-waste-manhattan-project-missouri-reca-jama?

#RadioactiveHazards #Cancer #NoNukes #NoWar #EPAFail #USPol #USGovtFail #NuclearWeapons #RethinkNotRestart #NoNuclearWar #EnvironmentalDisaster
#WaterIsLife #SoilIsLife

Looking from one bridge to the next.

#Winter #Rivers #MissouriRiver

Gorgeous day for a couple of #POTA activations here in mid-America. Here is sunset this evening from Weston Bend State Park (US-1796) on the banks of #MissouriRiver. Also activated Lewis and Clark State Park (US-1770). #hamradio