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Coming Up with an Action Plan for Lewis & Clark Lake

Coming Up with an Action Plan for Lewis & Clark Lake

Paul Boyd Photo: WNAX


The Missouri Sedimentation Action Coalition held an open house in Yankton last week with several experts on river and dam hydraulics as part of their ongoing efforts to slow the degradation of Lewis & Clark Lake.

Paul Boyd, with the Corps of Engineers in Omaha, says they are looking for solutions..

Boyd says an action plan is a next step..

Boyd says the group needs to come up with a plan they can take to Congress and other government agencies for funding..

The lake gets about two thousand tons of sediment a day flowing in from the Niobrara River that is slowly filling in the twenty-five-mile-long lake.

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