§ 46A-14-4 — Conservation purposes supporting 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; (11) Protection or enhancement of the water quality in watercourses or water basins; (12) Protection of groundwater; and (13) Improvement, restoration, and maintenance of lakes, streams, and wetlands.

Legislative History

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; SL 2013, ch 228, § 7.