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Cooperation Needed to Head off Lewis & Clark Lake Silt

Cooperation Needed to Head off Lewis & Clark Lake Silt

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A federal water program may help find solutions to the increasing sediment flows into Lewis & Clark Lake.

Sandy Stockholm with the Missouri Sedimentation Action Coalition updated the Yankton County Commission this week on the state of the lake….

Stockholm says there is a provision in the federal “Water Resources Development Act of 2018” that could help finance an action plan….

Stockholm says they are working to get more local governments and agencies around the lake involved…..

Stockholm says they are looking at a four hundred-thousand-dollar study, half of which would need to be financed locally.

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