The Yankton City Commission approved spending twenty-five thousand dollars on a possible action plan for a solution to the growing silt problem at Lewis & Clark Lake.

Sandy Stockholm, Executive Director of the Missouri Sedimentation Action Coalition, told the commission support for action is growing……(NEWS21)(solutions)(:16)

Three to five thousand tons of silt, mostly from the Niobrara River, flow into the lake every day, extending the delta further east about four thousand feet a year.

Stockholm says they are developing a tentative time line……(NEWS22)(years)(:24)

Stockholm says it is time to attack the source of the mud inflows……(NEWS23)(problem)(:14)

Governments on both sides of the river are being asked to help pay for the fifty percent match of the estimated four hundred-thousand-dollar study.