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Pactola Pushed Into Flood Pool--Tops Record

Charles Michael Ray

Pactola Reservoir is now at an all-time record high level.  

The reservoir is perched in the Black Hills above Rapid City.    Recent rains pushed lake levels 7-feet into the flood pool.   
 
Officials are trying to control downstream flooding by letting less water out of the dam than is coming in from upstream.  But more rain is in the forecast.

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