Missouri River Project Records Guide
Department of Water and Natural Resources
Section 6

East Dakota Conservancy Sub-District, Administrative Files, 1976-1985

Box 5702

• Big Sioux Hydrology Study, Accelerated:

• Big Sioux Hydrology Study, South Dakota Geological Survey Quarterly Progress Report
• Federal Funding 1982-1984
• 1982 File Legislative Authorization 1982
• South Dakota Geological Survey Personnel Equipment U.S. Geological Study Stations
• Correspondence
• Old and Revised COGW (County Ground Water) Study Contracts and Billings

• Draft Reports/Various Sections/BSAWQS (Big Sioux Aquifer Water Quality Study):

• Chronological File 1983-1984
• Mailing Lists for Pamphlets and Oral Presentations to Service Clubs
• Pamphlets and Outside Review
• Dennis Nelson
• Draft Reports
• Interagency Water Quality Management Council
• Development of Original Proposal 1979-1980
• Development of Final Proposal 1980
• Implementation of Final Proposal 1981-1982
• Final Environmental Protection Approved Work Plan
• Work Plan for Education Program and Contract with the Department of Water and Natural Resources
• Research Papers on Groundwater Quality
• News Items and Background Information 1980-1981
• Brookings Landfill

• Interagency Water Quality Management Council:

• Chronological File 1983-1984
• Chronological File 1981-1983
• Contract with Department of Water and Natural Resources
• Slides- Conservation Now Project
• Septic Tank Project
• American Petroleum Institute
• Technology Magazine Article, Petroleum

Box 5703

• Interagency Water Quality Management Council, Petroleum Storage Study:

• Drafting of Petroleum Report
• Fire Codes, Uniform and National
• National/International Petroleum Spill Control
• Petroleum Storage Inventory
• Petroleum State Tank Specifications Other than API
• Petroleum Spill Programs, Other States

• Lake Herman:

• Lake Herman MIP (Model Implementation Project) Project
• Lake Herman Dredging 1983

• Oakwood Lakes Project:

• Soil Conservation Service Preliminary Plans, Specifications, Bids and Construction Contracts
• Memorandum of Agreement
• Easements
• Grant Applications, Original and Supplemental
• Environmental Protection Agency Progress Reports
• Environmental Protection Agency Grant and Payment Requests
• 404 Permit Archaeological Survey
• Correspondence and Memorandums
• Environmental Protection Agency Final Report
• Oakwood Lakes/Lake Poinsett (2 folders)

• Lake Kampeska:

• Shoreline Project East Dakota Conservancy Sub-district
• Maps
• Payment Requests Shoreline Project
• Correspondence, General Information
• Specifications Construction
• Bid Letting Construction Contracts
• Shoreline Project Quarterly Progress Reports to Environmental Protection Agency
• Section 404 Permit
• Environmental Protection Agency Grant Application
• Grant Agreement, Environmental Protection Agency
• Environmental Protection Agency Final Report

Box 5704

• Lake Poinsett Shoreline Stabilization Project:

• Correspondence
• 404 Permit Archaeological Survey
• Financial Plan/Engineering Estimates
• Bid Letting
• Inspection Notes
• Easements
• Contracts

• Chronological Files 1980-1982, 1984
• East Dakota Conservancy Sub-District:

• Annual Reports
• Board Memo 1984
• Petitions 1984
• Financial Planning
• Handling of Sub-District Funds
• IRS Tax-Free Registration Number
• Investments
• Inventory List
• Resolution Sub-District Assistance to Water Projects
• Report of Expenditures, Monthly 1963-1970
• Report of Expenditures 1971-1979
• Operations Budget
• Operations Budget, 1985
• South Dakota Operations Budget 1984
• Report of Expenditures 1980-
• Financial Summaries Quarterly and Yearly

Box 5705A

• Financial:

• Tax Receipts
• Working Budget
• U.S. Geological Survey Contracts

• State Geological Survey Contracts
• Big Stone Lake, Whetstone River
• Moody County
• Erosion Protection
• Soil Conservation Service
• Dakota State University
• Procedures for South Dakota Wrap-up Operation
• Disposal of South Dakota Records, State Archivist
• Appraisals, Close-out of Sub-Districts
• Miscellaneous
• Board Memoranda 1980-1983

East Dakota Conservancy Sub-District Minutes 1963-1984

Box 1865

• East Dakota Conservancy Sub-District Minutes 1963-1967, 1971-1980, 1984 (1 folder, 4 volumes)

East Dakota Conservancy Sub-District Scrapbooks, 1971-1976 (H85-085)

Box 3653B

• Newspaper Clippings 1971-September 1975 (bound volume)
• Newspaper Clippings October 1975-1976 (bound volume)

East Dakota Conservancy Sub-District, South Dakota State Lakes Preservation Committee Files, 1975-1977 (96-027)

Box 6131A

• Old West Grant
• State Lakes Committee Personnel Information
• Wrap-up Operations, Bid Setting for Report
• State Lakes Preservation Committee (SLPC) Chronological File 1977
• HB 755
• State Authorities 40.19.5
• 40.193 State Lakes Preservation Committee Grants Administration
• State Lakes Preservation Committee, Current
• State Lakes Preservation Committee, 1975-1976
• State Lakes Preservation Committee April 1, 1976

Box 6131B

• State Lakes Committee Minutes
• Station 38 WAM James River 460638 (2 folders)
• State, 314 Grant Application and Grant Agreement
• State Lakes Preservation Committee (2 folders)
• Eutrophication, General

Fort Randall Conservancy Sub-District, Board Minutes 1961-1984 (85-096)

Box 1790

• Fort Randall Conservancy Sub-District, Board Minutes 1961-1984 (25 volumes)

Lawernce County Conservancy Sub-District, Administrative Files, 1983-1984 (85-073)

Box 2158

• Minute Records 9/6/83-10/31/84
• South Dakota Conservancy District Resolution #83-26
• Nominating Petition 11/10/83
• Water Plan Materials for 1984-1985
• State Water Plan Facility Information Summaries (2 folders)
• Correspondence 7/83-12/84

Lower James Conservancy Sub-District, Administrative Files, 1965-1983 (85-157)

Box 2227A

• Release of Claims
• Lower James Conservancy Sub-District Minutes of Meetings, 1966
• Letters
• 1984 Petitions
• Lower James Conservancy Sub-District By-Laws
• R.E.A. (Rural Electric)
• Community Resources
• Mitchell City Water Supply
• Observation Well Report
• Legislation
• Tax Resolutions of Lower James Conservancy Sub-District
• Budget
• Financial Reports
• Application, Water Rights
• Nominating Petitions for Sub-District Director
• Annual Reports

Box 2227B

• Nominating Petitions Sub-District Board of Directors
• Contract with Schmucker, Shaffer and Paul
• Petitions

Lower James Conservancy Sub-District, Audit and Financial Reports, 1964-1983 (85-156)

Box 1355B

• Lower James Conservancy Sub-District Financial Statements/Reports 1964-1983 (23 volumes)

Lower James Conservancy Sub-District, Audit Reports 1964-1979 (85-099)

Box 1824

• Lower James Conservancy Sub-District, Audit Reports 1964-1965, 1967-1968, 1970, 1972, 1977-1979 (8 volumes)

Lower James Conservancy Sub-District, Board Minutes 1963-1984 (85-097)

Box 1824

Lower James Conservancy Sub-District, Board Minutes 1963-1984 (22 volumes)

Lower James Conservancy Sub-District, General Correspondence, 1969-1979 (85-155)

Box 1344

• Lower James Conservancy Sub-District, General Correspondence 1969-1970, 1973-1979 (9 folders)

Lower James Conservancy Sub-District, Planning and Project Files, 1963-1984 (85-163)

Box 1611

• Oahe Project
• South Dakota Reclamation and Water Development Association
• Turkey-Clay Watershed and Others
• Water Rights
• Rural Water
• Future of South Dakota
• Lake Mitchell
• 208 Management System
• Lower James Conservancy Sub-District Meeting August 20, 1979
• United Family Farmers (UFF)
• Upper Missouri Water Users Association
• 72 Diversion
• The Modification
• South Dakota Natural Resources council
• Power Line
• Sanborn County
• 1978 Appropriations Washington D.C.
• Resolutions for Diversion
• Highmore Canal Diversion
• Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) Correspondence
• Oahe Contracts
• Proposed Sanborn Canal Overhead
• Sioux Falls, Chamberlain
• Canal Side
• ETSI (Energy Transportation System Inc.)
• Corps’ Hearings Summer 1976

Box 1612

• City of Mitchell, Sediment Survey
• Congressional Material
• Environmental Protection, South Dakota Council, Environment Education
• James River Flood Control Association
• James River Flood Control
• James River Technical Data
• State Legislation 1971
• Legislative Research Council Reports and Correspondence
• Level B Study
• Hutchinson County
• Miner County
• City of Mitchell Ground Water Supply Study
• Mission Hill Watershed
• News Stories
• Missouri Basin Water Resources Conference- Senator McGovern
• Oahe Sub-District
• Petitions, Water Interest
• Remote Sensing Institute
• 1966 Resolution, Water Control Standards
• River Basin Studies
• Water Resources Congress (Water Resources Associated/National Rivers and Harbors Congress)
• Turkey-Clay Watershed
• South Dakota Water Congress
• Geological Survey
• Missouri River Water Marketing Memo and Correspondence
• James River Clean-up
• District III Planning Minutes
• Bank Stabilization, Missouri River
• Water Needs of Towns in Lower James Conservancy Sub-District, ca. 1965

Box 1613

• South Dakota Reclamation and Water Development Association
• Slide Series "Pipeline to the Future"
• Sedimentation
• Watersheds
• Water Quality Criteria
• Correspondence
• Lower James, Vermillion Project
• Lower James, Vermillion Resource Conservation and Development Sub-Committee Industry, Transportation, Public Factors and Human Resources, Information and Education
• Chamberlain-Sioux Falls Pipeline Meeting Minutes February 1977
• Chamberlain to Sioux Falls Pipeline (2 folders)
• Chamberlain Meeting May 15, 1978
• Jamestown Dam
• Public Hearing December 6, 1974
• State Water Plan

Lower James Conservancy Sub-District, Publications, 1951-1984 (85-154)

Box 1614

• "1965 Lower James Conservancy Sub-District," n.d.
• "Oahe Conservancy Sub-District, 1964"
• "Rules and Regulations of the Davison Rural Water System Inc.," Davison Rural Water System, 1984
• "Contacts with Agricultural Agents, Factors Related to Various Types of Contacts Farmers have with Professional Agricultural Workers and the Effect of these Contacts on Technological Change," South Dakota State College, n.d.
• "Sewage Works in South Dakota," South Dakota Department of Health, 1961
• "South Dakota Water Supply Data," South Dakota Department of Health, Division of Sanitary Engineering, July 1961
• "Water Resources of Hanson and Davison Counties, South Dakota," U.S. Geological Survey, 1983
• "Oahe Irrigation Project Impacts of Fish, Wildlife and Recreation," South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks, August 1976
• "Report on James Diversion Dam, Appendixes A-H," Bureau of Reclamation, Region 6, March 1962
• "Tower and Greenwood Units, Lower James-Fort Randall Water diversion Proposal, Planning Report/Fonsi," Bureau of Reclamation, December 1982
• "Report on Wagner Unit, South Dakota Pumping Division, Missouri River Basin Project," Bureau of Reclamation, Region 6, April 1959
• "Appendixes to Report on South Dakota Pumping Division," Bureau of Reclamation, Region 6, n.d.
• "Testimony at Public Hearing and Other Comments Received on Draft Environmental Statement, Initial Stage of Oahe Unit, James Division Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin Program, Hearing Held at Aberdeen, South Dakota on November 29-30, 1972," Bureau of Reclamation, n.d.
• "Plan Formulation Document, South Dakota Dredge Program, James River Basin," South Dakota Department of Water and Natural Resources, December 1983
• "Plan Formulation Working Document, Lower James-Fort Randall Water Diversion Proposal," Bureau of Reclamation, April 1982
• "Projects Formulation and Finance Committee," n.d.
• "South Dakota Water Projects Formulation and Finance Committee," n.d.
• "Southeast South Dakota Experiment Farm, Fourth Annual Progress Report," South Dakota State University, December 1964

Lower James Conservancy Sub-District, Resource Conservation and Development Files, 1974-1975 (85-098)

Box 1824

• Lower James Conservancy Sub-District/Resource Conservation and Development Files, 1974-1975 (2 volumes)

Lower James Conservancy Sub-District, Slides, 1976 (85-162)

Box 2263A

• Slides, "Challenge for Today: Water for Tomorrow" (3 slide boxes)

Lower James Conservancy Sub-District, Slides, 1974-1978, James River Area, Photos and Negatives, 1965-1977 (85-159)

Box 1619

• Slides:

• Yankton and Hutchinson Counties, James River
• U.S. 81 Bridge, Rock Dam and Steel Bridge
• Snags, Sandbars, South of Olivet
• Snags, Sandbar, South of Menno
• Tree Snag, Sandbar, Obstruction South of Jamesville
• Obstruction above Highway 81
• Debris, Erosion, Snags, Trash, Highway 81 to Highway 50

• Lower James Conservancy Slides
• Lower James Conservancy Sub-District Photographs and Negatives, 1965-1977

 

Meade Conservancy Sub-District, Subject Files, 1978-1984 (85-)

Box 2287A

• Sub-District and Other Minutes, 1978, 1983-1984
• Sub-District Establishment Documents, 1983
• Administrative Records, 1983-1984
• Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1983-1984

Oahe Conservancy Sub-District, Minutes, 1961-1978 (85-201)

Box 5241

• Oahe Conservancy Sub-District Meeting Minutes, January 1961-May 1978 (21 folders)

Oahe Conservancy Sub-District, Minutes, 1977-1984 (85-100)

Box 2218A

• April 28, 1977-September 29, 1977
• July 17, 1978-December 1978
• January 1979-August 1979

Box 2218B

• September 28, 1979-January 31, 1980
• March 31, 1980-September 2, 1980
• October 30, 1980-December 29, 1980
• January 26-27, 1981-March 16, 1981

Box 2219A

• May 8, 1981-December 18, 1981
• February 12, 1982-May 27, 1982
• July 20, 1982-December 17, 1982

Box 2219B

• January 6, 1983-June 27, 1983
• June 27, 1983-October 21, 1983
• December 15, 1983-May 21, 1984

South Dakota State Archives
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