Ft Peck Dam pushing its limits.

A record-setting year of moisture has raised the 134-mile-long reservoir to its highest level ever, an elevation of 2,252.3 feet as of Thursday. Full pool at the reservoir is 2,250. Inflows from the Missouri River, boosted by high water on the Musselshell River, have forced the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to release a record amount of water from its spillway - 52,000 cubic feet per second, 65,000 cfs when combined with the water being run through the powerhouse.
Yet the lake level keeps rising.
"If we could just drop back to normally high inflows, we'd drop pretty quickly at these releases," said John Daggett, the Army Corps' dam operations manager in Fort Peck.

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May be one to keep a eye on, if it gives way thats a lot of water going down stream Odds are it will hold, but there is still a lot of water to come out of the mountains yet. Record snow fall's this year with late warm up.