FLOOD01312

• County: Statewide
• Title: Multi-Objective Flood Mitigation Plan for Vermillion River Basin-South Dakota
• Date: 1/1/1994
• Prepared For: South Dakota
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Mitigation/Flood Warning/Watershed Restoration

Management Agency, the Farmers Home
Administration, and the Economic Devdop-
mmt Administration.

Funding and/or technical assistance
may be available through the National
Recreation Trails Fund, Resource Conserva.
tion Development Loans. the National Park
Service's Rivers, Trails and Conservation
Assistance Program, the Federal Emergency
Management Agency's Hazard Mitigation
Grant Program, the Farmers Home Admin-
istration's Section 502 program, the Depart-
ment of Housing and Vrban Development's
Community Development Block Grants, the
V.s. Army Corps of Engineers' Section 205
program, and the Land and Water Conser-
vation Fund (with a 50% local match).

I SS U E 2

GROWING NEED TO MAIN-
TAIN RECREATIONAL AREAS

Without funding and a commitmenl
to maintenance, newly developed
recreation areas can fall into disuse.

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F"mure that funds are available and responsibil-
ity is delegated for proper tMintenance of rerre-
atienal area5.
Local and state governments and state
and local park agencies could lead this effort.
Ongoing support for maintenance
could be obtained through the Retired Seniors
Volunteer Program, Senior Community
Service Employment Program, and existing
state and local government budgets.

ISSUE 3

LACK OF UNCULTIVATED PUB-
LIC OPEN SPACE LIKE
PRAIRIES, WOODLANDS, WET-
LANDS, AND GRASSLANDS;
PUBLIC ACCESS TO TUB VER-
MILLION RIVER APPEARS TO
BE LIMITED

P(JTIO~TIAl. SOLUTION }-A
Encourage conservarion easements to acquire
open spau and obtain publk aaess to the
ri'VetS. [This action would also address Loss of
Agricultural Productivity from Flooding; see
Solution l-A,page21.}
Recreate former wetlands. [This action
would also address Flooding in the Vermillion
RivtTvalley; seeSolutioI12-C,pnge 16, 1twou/d

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address Flooding around Lake Thompson; see
Solution 3-A, page 18. It would address Loss of
Habitat for WildlIfe; see Solution 2-A, pnge 28.
It would address High Rates of Agricultural
Runoff and Erosion; see Solution/-B, page 35.]
Use tax inmrti'Ves to errrourage easements.
The Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service should take the lead
with help from the Federal Emergency
Management Agency and County Water
Resource Districts.
Funding should be sought through the
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
Service's Water Bank Program, the V.s.
Department of Agriculture's Great Plains
Conservation Program, Wetlands Reserve
Program, the Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency's Hazatd Mitigation Grant
Program, Ducks Unlimited, Pheasants For
Everyone, sporting dubs, the US Bureau of
Land Management's Cooperative Forestry
Assistance Program, and County Water
Resource Districts.

I SS U E 4

LACK OF HISTORIC ANIJ
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES
DEVELOPED FOR RECREATION
AND TOURISM; LACK OF
AWARENESS OF THE
HISTORIC SITES

POTFSTIAL SOLl1Tlo!'.: -t-A
Inventory sites and identify those that could be
connected with recreation, then de-velop recre-
ational areas on them. Conduct a feasibility
study for the repair, maintenance, and possible