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

The S.D. Department of Environment
and NalOral Resources' Division of Geological
Survey wuld lead this effort, along with a future
ba.~in-wide water management authority.
The S.D. Department of Environment
and Natural Resources' funds for existing
activities are coming in rart from V.s. Envi-
ronmental Prote<tion Agency 319 and 314

Department of Game, Fish and Parks. the V.s.
Soil Conservation Service, the U.s. Fish and
Wildlife Service, the V.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, the V.s. Department of
Agriculture, the S.D. Department of Trans-
portation, the V.s. Bureau of Reclamation,
the V.s. Anny Corps of Engineers, and the
S.D. Association of Conservation Districts.

Intermodal Surface Transportation En-
hancement Act, Ducks Unlimited, and The
Nature Conservancy.

ISSUE 4

SHALLOW AQUIFERS NEEU
PROTECTION

grants, with matching funds from the appro-
priate state agency budgets. The S.D. Depart-
ment of Agriculture and the V.s. Geological
Survey may also have funding available.

POTE:-.;TIAI. SOLUTIOr.; J-8
Conduct a basin-wide inYfntory of land use,
fTOsion, wtl/Jlt'ads, water quality, COllctntrations
of livestock, septic systems, wastova/tT tretltment
systems, abandoned wt'/ls, underground storage
tanks, and other sources of po/lUtiltlts. [This adUm
wOldd also alJdress Shortage of Hydrologic
Information; see Solution 5-A, page 20.)
The S.D. Department of Agriculture
could lead, along with the S.D. Department of
Environment and Natural Resources, the S.D.

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Funding could come from many
sources, induding V.S. Environmental
Protection Agency wetlands protection
grants, the V.s. Department of Agricultures
Great Plains Program, the V.s. Fish and
Wildlife Service's Partners for Wildlife,
grants administered by the S.D. Department
of Environment and Natural Resources
from the V.s. Environmental Protection
Agency 319 program for non-point source
pollution, the S.D. Department of Agri~
culture's Conservation Commis."ion grants,
the S.D. Department of Game, Fish and
Parks' Pheasants for Everyone and Water"
fowl Habitat programs, the S.D. Depart-
ment of Transportation's funds from the

4)

Three shallow aquifers underlie the
Vermillion River Basin. They provide
drinking water and are considered "sensitive."
Sensitive aquifers are those likely to be affected
by human activities because they lie near the
ground surface and beause of the land use
practices that are taking place above them.
Pesticides and nitrates have been detected in
one aquifer.

POTENTIAL SOLUTION 4-A
Protl'd existing wells from agricultural du:mialls,
animal wastes, and septic sysrerm. [This action
would also address Damage to Public Infra-
structurt from F/ooIIi~ see Solution 3-B, page 24.)
Protect areas adjaa'1lt to domestic water wells.