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<br /> <br />LOOKING <br /> <br />AHEAD <br /> <br />"/" a WilY. some of tlll? practit-es oj us resitimfs Mer the )'Ctlrs hm'e cmltributed to the sn't7it)' of the floodillg. . . . <br /> <br />Excessi\'c timirlage in some parts of tlte wtlterslted arid the B/lsin t1$ a whole. . . IJOt coordirlatillK Ollr efforts to mitigate some of the effects <br /> <br />(1'jlooding, . . . NolJOely is a ba~1 actor hert'; we've allln't''' dO/llg what we thought was right. Rllt some oj the tllillgs that we're thinking <br /> <br />about ill this phm are IOtlg own/ue. \\iFw beer! a JOllg time getting into this fix and it's going to take some time to get back out." <br /> <br />RiCMrd Hammond <br />S.D. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Geological Survey <br /> <br />REDUCING FUTURE FLOOD LOSSES in <br />the Vermillion Basin and ensuring <br />the sustain ability of the region's <br />agricultural economy and its quality of life <br />will be on ongoing process.. Ideally. the ideas <br />and goals set oul in this Multi-objective Aood <br />Mitigation Plan will be continually revi.sed <br />and updated for many years, even into <br /> <br />future generations. Rapid. visible progress <br />should not be counted on. Land use and <br />zoning regulations, for example. are designed <br />to improve conditions in the future. not <br />immediately. even if they are enacted right <br />away. Legislative changes may be slow in <br />coming. It will be important to remember <br />that the flooding problems in the Basin devel. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />oped gradually, over a period of many years. <br />In the same way. small amounts of progress <br />in implementing mitigation measures will <br />begin to accumulate enduring benefits as <br />time passes. <br />