The River Basin Natural Resource District Oversight Advisory Task Force will hold their first meeting this week in Pierre.

The task force will begin the process of changing water basin management in South Dakota. That is all because of legislation passed in this year’s session, which became effective on July first.

One of the main sponsors, Senator Jason Frerichs of Wilmot says it will be an ambitious process…

 

The legislation changes water management to follow drainage basins rather than county lines.

Frerichs says the task force will have to decide how to divide up some of the larger water districts…

 

Frerichs says they will follow the water…

 

The task force will begin with a pilot management project in the Red – Minnesota River basins in north east South Dakota. The meeting is set for Thursday in Pierre.