2012 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 46A WATER MANAGEMENT
Chapter 14. Watershed Districts
§46A-14-4 Watershed districts--Conservation purposes authorizing establishment.

46A-14-4. Watershed districts--Conservation purposes authorizing establishment. A watershed district may be established for any of the following conservation purposes:

(1) Control or allocation of damage by floods by flood prevention structures including levees;

(2) Improvement of stream channels;

(3) Reclaiming or filling wet and overflowed lands;

(4) Providing water supply for irrigation;

(5) Regulating the flow and conserving the water of streams;

(6) Diverting or changing watercourses in whole or in part;

(7) Providing and conserving water supply for domestic, industrial, recreational, and other public use;

(8) Providing for sanitation and public health and regulating the use of streams, ditches, or watercourses for the disposition of waste;

(9) Relocate, extend, replace, modify, consolidate, or abandon in whole or in part, drainage systems within a watershed district and to operate and maintain drainage systems;

(10) Imposition of preventive or remedial measures for the control or alleviation of land and soil erosion and siltation of watercourses or bodies of water affected by erosion.

Source: SL 1957, ch 492, § 4; SL 1959, ch 452, § 2; SDC Supp 1960, § 61.1504; SL 1965, ch 303, § 2; SDCL, § 46-24-4; SL 1989, ch 389, § 1.