Water Resources South - Development Dakota \Joun. I ? uP5 y vru-Lf I VPU \r.r I 0 I f Ê IDI I V________ / Missouri River Division ì y J Water Resources January 1379 Development by the TC U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in IU542»4 South Dakota 1979 January 1979 tlöRM Oi AUGI 1 U/s Bureau of Reclamation Denver, Colorado BUREAU OF RECLAMATION DENVER LIBRARY 92070957 92070957 United States Army Corps of Engineers ...Serving the Army ...Serving the Nation TO OUR READERS: Water, as every American is learning, is a finite resource. And we of the United States Army Corps of Engineers are the stewards and principal developers of this most vital of the Nation’s resources. This booklet is only one of a series which covers our past, current, and proposed activities for every state in the Union. V' Our work began in 1824 when the Congress first directed us to begin naviga­ f \ IV tion work on the waterways of the United States so that an improved transporta­ tion system could open up the West for expansion. Since that time, the Engineers \ have found themselves widening their efforts into flood control, water supply, hydroelectric power, recreation, and water conservation, meeting the needs and > the demands of the American people. Today, there is increased emphasis on con­ servation, wetland protection, non-structural engineering solutions, metropolitan and flood plain water management, and the preservation and enhancement of the environment. We of the Corps take great satisfaction in our long record of service 88 to meet the changing needs in water resource management. Today, we find that our engineering experience has achieved international , recognition, and demands for our services have grown into work for foreign countries. Through State Department sponsorship, we are exporting our tech­ nology to such far-flung places as Saudi Arabia and Nigeria, and overcoming some unique engineering challenges. 7C 7C fzç This booklet summarizes our efforts in only one state. Other booklets like this cover Corps’ water resource programs in other states, possessions and territories. 1 Q if) UUJ II I U CY /■— 1979 DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, MISSOURI RIVER DIVISION CORPS OF ENGINEERS OMAHA, NEBRASKA The address of each Corps of Engineers office involved in the state is given below, and the area of responsibility of each is indicated on the map on the back of this pamphlet. Inquiries regarding the work of the Corps should be addressed to the appropriate office. DIVISION ENGINEER DEPARTMENTOF THE ARMY, MISSOURI RIVER DIVISION Corps of Engineers P.O. Box 103, Downtown Station Omaha, Nebraska 68101 DISTRICT ENGINEER DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY Omaha District, Corps of Engineers 6014 U .S. Post Office and Court House 215 North 17th Street Omaha, Nebraska 68102 DIVISION ENGINEER DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, NORTH CENTRAL DIVISION Corps of Engineers 536 South Clark Street Chicago, Illinois 60605 DISTRICT ENGINEER DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY St. Paul District, Corps of Engineers 1135 U.S. Post Office and Custom House St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 INTRODUCTION 5 MISSOURI RIVER TRIBUTARIES 15 COMPLETED MULTIPLE-PURPOSE PROJECTS 19 Lewis and Clark Lake 19 Lake Francis Case 22 Lake Sharpe 24 Lake Oahe 26 Bowman-Haley Lake 28 COMPLETED FLOOD CONTROL PROJECTS 29 Belle Fourche Local Protection Project 29 McCook Lake Rehabilitation 29 Missouri River, Sioux City to Kenslers and Miners Bends 29 Sioux Falls Local Protection Project 30 Fall River Flood Control Project 30 COMPLETED NAVIGATION PROJECTS 31 Missouri River, Sioux City, Iowa, to Fort Benton, Montana 31 MULTIPLE-PURPOSE PROJECTS UNDERWAY 32 Comprehensive Plan, Missouri River Basin 32 FLOOD CONTROL PROJECTS UNDERWAY 34 Big Sioux River, Sioux City and North Sioux City 34 ASSOCIATED PROJECTS OF OTHER AGENCIES 34 Shadehill Reservoir 34 Pactola Reservoir 34 'A R I AUTHORIZED FLOOD CONTROL PROJECTS NOT STARTED 35 Big Sioux River and Tributaries 35 SPECIAL PROJECTS 36 Streambank Erosion Control 36 WORK UNDER SPECIAL CONTINUING AUTHORITIES 36 CONTENTS Small Flood Control Projects 36 Spring Creek at Herreid 36 Red Dale Gulch, Rapid City 37 Big Sioux River, Watertown 37 Deadman Gulch, Sturgis 37 Rapid Creek at Rapid City 37 Flood Fighting and Emergency Repair 37 Black Hills Flood Disaster — June 1972 38 Black Hills Flood — June 1976 42 Emergency Bank Protection Projects 42 Flood Plain Information Reports 42 SURVEYS UNDERWAY 44 Missouri River Between Sioux City, Iowa, and Three Forks, Montana 45 RED RIVER-MINNESOTA RIVER SUBBASINS 46 COMPLETED FLOOD CONTROL PROJECTS 49 Lake Traverse-Boise de Sioux River 49 SPECIAL PROJECT 50 Big Stone Lake, Environmental Enhancement Study Underway 50 COMPREHENSIVE PROJECT UNDERWAY 50 Big Stone Lake-Whetstone River 50 SURVEYS UNDERWAY 50 INDEX 51 GLOSSARY 52 3 4 When adverse conditions or problems arise in con­ nection with flooding or related conservation matters, local interests, if unable to cope with the situation, may petition their representatives in Congress for assistance. The representatives, after consideration of such petitions, may request the appropriate Con­ gressional Committee to direct the Corps of Engineers to investigate the economic and technical feasibility and environmental and social acceptability of reme­ dial measures. When the directive covers an entire river basin, the basin is studied as a unit, and every effort is made to develop a comprehensive plan. Flood control, hydroelectric power, navigation, irri­ gation, water supply, water quality control, recrea­ tion, and such other water uses as can be economi­ cally integrated into the plan are considered. This means that plans approved must completely solve the problem and that project benefits, including flood damage reduction, must outweigh the cost of the project. Throughout the investigation and planning stages of a basin development, close coordination is maintained with local interests, the State, and other Federal agencies. As a result, the desires of local interests and the plans of other agencies receive full con­ sideration, and the plan as finally recommended for construction by the Corps of Engineers becomes a properly designed unit in the ultimate comprehensive development of the stream basin. These plans may be structural or nonstructural. Sec­ INTRODUCTION tion 73 of the Water Resource Development Act of 1974 authorizes the Corps to participate in implemen­ tation of nonstructural plans such as relocation or flood proofing of flood plain structures and acquisition of flood plain lands. Executive Order 11988 and the President’s recently announced water policy en­ courage nonstructural flood protection methods. The process of request, study authorization, funding, study, review, congressional authorization, and im­ plementation funding usually takes a considerable period of time. The study itself generally takes 2 to 4 This booklet provides timely, concise information con­ years. Although the period of study seems long, it cerning the water resources development program of assures you, as a taxpayer, that only economically the Corps of Engineers in South Dakota. Although it is and technically feasible and environmentally and a regularly constituted branch of the United States socially acceptable plans will be implemented. One of Army, with extensive military engineering and con­ the most important and necessary ingredients in the struction responsibilities, the Corps is actively en­ process of developing a project is continuing support gaged also in developing and implementing plans for by local people. The entire program is under the flood control, navigation, and water conservation as direction of the Secretary of the Army and the primary civil functions under Federal law. supervision of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army. 5 FLOOD CONTROL Federal concern in flood control dates back to the early part of the 19th century when the interrelation­ ship of flood control and navigation became apparent in the alluvial valley of the Mississippi River. Con­ The decentralized organization of the Corps of En­ gress, in the Flood Control Act of 1936, extended that gineers, with its 11 major divisions based primarily on interest to the entire country due to the impact of dis­ drainage boundaries, is particularly suited to the astrous floods affecting wide areas, as well as trans­ conduct of comprehensive studies leading to the most portation systems. effective utilization of our water resources. Most of The purpose of flood control works is to reduce flood the major river basins are entirely within the bound­ damages. This is accomplished by structural and non- aries of single divisions, and district boundaries are structural measures. Nonstructural measures include usually established to include one or more principal relocation or flood proofing flood plain buildings. tributary basins. Thus, the studies of water resources Structural plans include reservoirs, local protection needs and development for an entire river system, works, or combinations of both. Local protection is such as the Missouri River, can be coordinated in a accomplished by channel enlargement and improve­ single office where the varied and sometimes conflict­ ment, realignment, removal of obstructions, con­ ing water uses can be most readily resolved and struction of levees and floodwalls, bank protection, duplications of effort avoided. The programs and and appurtenant works. activities of the Corps, as presented herein, are ar­ Reservoirs constructed for flood control often include ranged by major subbasins which lie wholly or par­ additional storage capacity