Missouri River Project Records Guide
Department of Water and Natural Resources
Section 9

Water Project Files, 1956-1980 (98-94)

Box 5585

• Box Elder Water User District (Proposed)
• Crow Creek Indian Reservation Study
• Drainage District
• 15.19 Hermosa Water User District
• Lakeside Water User District
• 11.8 Missouri Slope Irrigation District, 1956-1976
• North Grand Water User District
• 15.28 Randall Water User District
• Randall Water User District
• 15.33 Squaw Creek Water User Association
• TM Water User District
• Tripp Water User District
• Union – Sayles Creek Watershed (2 folders)
• Upper Deer Creek Watershed
• Whetstone Pipeline Irrigation District 11.16
• Wild Rice Watershed (3 folders)

Water Rights Commission, Minutes, 1955-1976 (82-126)

Box 718

• July 8-9, 1955-November 17-18, 1965

Box 719

• January 19-20, 1966-November 10-11, 1971

Box 720

• January 19-20, 1972-December 8, 1976

West River Conservancy Sub-District, Administrative Files, 1970-1984 (85-167)

Box 1279

• Annual Reports
• Audit
• Audits and Accounts, Reports
• Audits and Accounts Correspondence
• Census, Government
• Budget
• Information Budget Procedures
• Taxes
• Taxation
• Tax Levy Regulations
• Tax Exemption, Rural Water Systems
• Purchase of Equipment
• East River Conservancy Sub-District WRC (Water Resources Commission):

• Attorney General Opinions
• Water Laws
• Maps
• Referendums
• Assessed Valuations
• Auditor, State and County
• Operations and Budget Reports
• Indian Lands
• Indian Lands Jurisdiction
• By-laws
• News Articles on West River
• Contracting Authority, Notice of Public Hearing
• Contracting Authority Committee
• Contract Authority
• Contracting Authority Hearings
• Cooperative Extension Service
• Certification, Secretary of State Concerning Votes Cast for West River
• Petitions

Box 1280

• Petitions
• 1970 Petitions
• Establishment of Petition Forms and Correspondence
• News Releases
• Organizational Material for West River
• Petitions, Directors 1970
• Physical Data on West River Sub-District
• Resolutions
• White River Resolution
• Returns 1968
• Sediment Control
• Stanley County
• Type IV River Basin Study PL566, West River Area
• West River Goals
• Congressional Delegation

• West River Rural Water Systems (RWS):

• West River Aqueduct Correspondence with ETSI (Energy Transfer System Inc.) and Black Hills Conservancy Sub-District
• West River Rural Water System Miscellaneous
• Department of Water and Natural Resources

• Loan Applications or HUD Applications 1982:

• Bureau of Reclamation
• Project Information Summary for State Water Plan
• Southwest Pipeline Perkins County Water Users
• Contract Agreements
• Rural Water Organizing
• Cliff Ramsey
• South Dakota Water Congress

Box 1281

• South Dakota Assessment of Rural Water Systems
• Assessed Valuations
• 1984 Legislation
• Loan Agreements
• WRWDD (West River Water Development District)
• 5th Planning District
• Mellette County
• South Dakota Association of Sub-District Managers
• Requests
• Financial Assistance Requests 1984
• ETSI (Energy Transfer System Inc.)
• Outgoing
• Incoming 1984
• Resolution 82-83
• Original Referendum Petitions, Resolution 82-83
• James Abdnor
• Larry Pressler
• Tom Daschle

• Army Corps of Engineers:

• Nominating Petitions for Sub-District Director
• Gregory Pump Storage Unit OWRC (Old West Regional Commission) Correspondence
• Gregory Pump Storage Unit Congressional Correspondence
• Gregory Pump Storage Unit Advisory Unit
• Gregory Pump Storage Unit Consulting Service Contacts
• Gregory Pump Storage Unit Executive Council
• Gregory Pump Storage Unit In-Kind Money
• RWS (Rural Water Systems) Agreements, Notes and Resolutions
• Future Use Permits

• Irrigation Water Rights, Individuals:

• Clarke Alleman

Box 1282

• Michael Daly
• J. Tipps Hamilton
• Kristle and Son
• Loren Miller
• Ronald Summons
• Herman Stromer (Bud)
• Bonesteel Storage
• Isabel Supply
• McLaughlin Wastewater
• North Grand Water
• Dallas Wastewater
• Letters and News Articles, Legal Notices State Water Plan
• Letters
• Tripp County Rural Water System
• West River Rural Water Systems
• Rosebud Rural Water System
• Gregory Wells and Storage
• Lemmon Wells
• Eagle Butte Sewage
• Landing Creek Pipeline Irrigation District
• Whetstone Pipeline Irrigation District
• West River Aqueduct
• Fundin South Dakota
• Water Facilities Construction Fund Loan Applications
• West River Conservancy Audits Annual Reports
• Gregory County Pump Storage
• Gregory County Pump Storage Unit Water
• Corson-Perkins Rural Water Systems

Box 1283

• Water:

• Artesian Well Records
• 1975 Assessment of Water and Related Land Resources
• Bonesteel Groundwater Survey
• Bad River Basin Hearing
• Dakota Sandstone Aquifer Potential Recharge
• Highway Storage Water
• Municipality Water Systems
• City Water Statistics
• Bison Water System
• Fox Ridge Water System
• Future Use Permits West River Division
• Gregory Water Supply
• Philip City Water Statistics
• Murdo Water Supply
• Pfeifer Well, Phillip, South Dakota
• Phillip Water System
• Wood Water System

• Rural Water Systems:

• Low Interest Federal Assistance Rural Water Systems
• Cottonwood Range Research Station
• Cheyenne Rural Water, Alternate Study
• Cheyenne Water Systems
• Cottonwood Rural Water System
• Cedar Community Water Association Rural Water System
• East Gregory Rural Water Loan
• East Gregory County Rural Water District
• East Gregory Rural Water Assessment
• Four County Water Needs Study (Dewey, Corson, Perkins, Ziebach)
• FHA (Farmers Home Administration) Funding Rural Water System
• WEB (Walworth-Edmunds-Brown Water Development Inc.) Pipeline
• Whetstone Pipeline Project, Gregory
• Landing Creek Irrigation Project
• Mellette County Rural Water
• Old Trail Rural Water System
• Public Works Money
• Bowman-Haley Reservoir
• Lyman-Jones Rural Water System
• Moreau Grand Rural Water System
• North Grand Water Users District- Irrigation Unit
• Southern Tripp Group
• Tri-County Water Assessment Incorporated
• Tripp County Water Users District
• TC&G Rural Water System
• National Conference on Water
• National Water Policy
• Safe Drinking Act
• SDSU Alternative Water Authorities
• Section 10 and 404 Permits
• Timber Lake Observation Wells #5
• 208 Water Quality Management Study
• South Dakota Water Goals Program
• State Water Plan
• Streambank Erosion Nominations
• Water Sample Kuchenbecker Well
• West River Water Diversion Water Use and Availability
• West River Water Diversion Legislative

Box 1284

• West River Water Diversion:

• Maps
• Resolutions
• Industrial Water Service Contract
• Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation
• Statements and News Releases
• Needs in Sub-Districts
• ETSI (Energy Transportation System Inc.) Correspondence
• Minutes
• 1978 Engineering Reports
• Old West Regional Commission Proposal
• Industrial Interests
• Power Loss
• Reports
• West River Aqueduct Task Force
• Congressional Correspondence
• Financing
• Fact Sheets
• Coal and Its Development
• Indian Water Inventory
• Belvedere City Water Statistics
• Ft. Randall Master Plan
• Oahe Master Plan
• Water Systems, General Information
• Water User District Information

• Watersheds, General Information
• Water Projects Formulation and Finance Committee, Materials for Meetings, Water Project Forum and Finance Committee

Box 1285

• Associations:

• Great Lakes of South Dakota
• Greater South Dakota Associations
• Little White River Development Association
• Save-Our-Lakes Association
• National Water Resources Council
• South Dakota Association of Rural Water Systems
• South Dakota Stockgrowers Associations
• South Dakota Development Association
• State Lakes Preservation Committee
• Upper Missouri Water Users Association
• White River Development Association

• Federal Agencies:

• Army Corps of Engineers, Western South Dakota Study
• Badlands National Monument
• Bureau of Indian Affairs
• Bureau of Reclamation Small Reclamation Projects Act
• Environmental Protection Agency
• EROS (Earth Resources Observation Satellite) Images
• Extension Service
• Field Advisory Committee
• Forest Service
• U.S. Geological Surveys
• Indian Laws
• Indian Tribes
• Land Use and Resource Conservation Act of 1975
• National Water Commission
• Oglala Sioux Tribe
• Upper Missouri River Regional Commission
• Soil Conservation Service
• Water Resources Council

• Irrigation:

• Archibald Demonstration Farm
• Excess Land Limitations
• Irrigated Crops
• Irrigation
• Irrigation Questionnaire Information
• Irrigation Units
• Irrigation System Feasibility Report Sands, Zelke, Drieske-Schmidt
• Blaine Drageset, Shadehill Irrigation Unit
• Shadehill Unit Crop Production Reports
• Grass Rope Irrigation Unit
• Hill Top Irrigation Unit
• F.H. Ireland, White River Irrigation Unit
• Lake Andes-Wagner Irrigation Project
• Oahe Irrigation Unit
• Ken Sutton, Shadehill Irrigation Unit
• Two Kettle Project Irrigation Unit
• Reliance Irrigation

• Irrigation Water Rights Counties:

• Corson County Water Rights
• Haakon County Water Rights
• Jackson County Water Rights
• Perkins County Water Rights
• Washabaugh County Water Rights
• White River Water Rights
• Municipality Sewage Effluent
• Permits Across Cropland
• Power Revenue Sharing
• Irrigation Yield Contest
• Water Laws Irrigation
• Water Right Forms

• Legislature:

• 1976 Legislature-Laws
• Legislative Report 1980
• 1977 Legislature
• 1978 Legislature
• Senate Bill 3354 Water Resources Planning Act

• Weather Modification

Box 1286

• Missouri River Basin:

• Additional Hydropower Study
• Applications for Permits, Missouri River in South Dakota
• Bad River
• Cheyenne River
• Drawdown of Lake Francis Case
• Memo of Understanding between Department of the Army and the Interior
• Missouri River
• Missouri River Bank Stabilization
• Missouri River Basin Commission
• Missouri River Basin Sedimentation
• Missouri River Basin Topography
• Missouri River Sub-Impoundments and Sediment
• Missouri River Water Charge
• 1944 Flood Control Act
• Project Priority
• Water Storage Reports
• Western Dakota Basin Reconnaissance
• White River
• White River Basin
• White River Dam

• Black Hills Conservancy Sub-District
• Pollution and Environment:

• Environmental Impact Statements
• South Dakota Committee on Water Pollution
• Waste Disposal Systems

• Professional Services:

• Engineering Firms
• Hydrology

• Resources Conservation and Development Projects:

• Application for Assistance in Developing a Resource Conservation and Development Project Plan
• Black Hills Resource Conservation and Development
• Northwestern Resource Conservation and Development Application
• Northwestern Resource Conservation and Development By-Laws
• Northwestern Resource Conservation and Development Correspondence
• Northwestern Resource Conservation and Development Forms
• Northwestern Resource Conservation and Development Proposal
• Northwestern Resource Conservation and Development Steering Committee
• Randall Resource Conservation and Development
• Randall Resource Conservation and Development Project Proposals
• Randall Resource Conservation and Development Steering Committee
• West Central Resource Conservation and Development Steering Committee
• West Central Resource Conservation and Development By-Laws
• West Central Resource Conservation and Development Projects

Box 1287

• State Agencies:

• Board of Natural Resource Development Minutes
• Department of Natural Resources Division of Water Planning and Development
• Coordination of Indian Affairs
• Fifth Planning and Development District
• Financing State Water Resources Projects
• Governor of South Dakota
• Governor’s Administrative Council
• Governor’s Council on Environmental Education
• Institute of Atmospheric Sciences
• Indian Public Health Service (John Wall)
• Joint Meeting of All Sub-Districts
• Local Government Study Committee
• Raymond Lund District Specialist
• Oahe Task Force
• South Dakota Water Resource Commission, State Water Plan
• Redfield Irrigation Farm
• Sixth Planning and Development District
• Soil Conservation Districts Long Range Programs
• South Dakota Agricultural Coordinating Committee
• South Dakota Conservancy District Board
• South Dakota Department of Agriculture
• South Dakota Department of Environmental Protection
• South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks
• South Dakota Department of Health
• South Dakota Department of Highways
• South Dakota Department of Transportation
• South Dakota School of Mines
• South Dakota Water Congress
• Natural Resources Committee
• Special Districts
• Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
• State Conservation Commission
• State Planning Agency
• Tri-County Rural Development Utility Engineering Corp.
• Vector Control
• Water for South Dakota
• Water Goals for South Dakota
• Water Management Board
• Water Resources Institute
• Water Rights Commission

Box 1288A

• State Water Plans, 1984, 1985 (2 folders)

Box 1289

• Accounting:

• Budget
• Audit of Accounts
• County Tax Receipts 1970-1974
• Tax Levy Resolutions

• Missouri River Basin:

• Bad River
• Congressional Correspondence
• Missouri River
• Sedimentation
• White River Basin
• White River

• Other Sub-Districts:

• Black Hills Conservancy Sub-District
• East Dakota Conservancy Sub-District
• Fort Randall Conservancy Sub-District
• Lower James Conservancy Sub-District
• Oahe Sub-District

• Resource Conservation and Development:

• Northwestern Resource Conservation and Development Application
• Northwestern Resource Conservation and Development Correspondence
• Northwestern Resource Conservation and Development Steering Committee Minutes
• Randall Resource Conservation and Development
• Randall Resource Conservation and Development Steering Committee
• West Central South Dakota Resource Conservation and Development
• West Central Resource Conservation and Development Project

• State Agencies:

• Department of Natural Resources
• Sub-Impoundments Missouri River
• East River Guardian
• Frank Denholm

Box 1290

• State Planning Agency
• Water Rights Commission
• Natural Resources Development Minutes

West River Conservancy Sub-District Minutes 1969-1980 (85-135)

Box 881B

• Motions (tablet)
• West River Conservancy Sub-District Minutes 1969-1980 (4 volumes)

West River Conservancy Sub-District, Publications and Printed Material, 1968-1984 (85-164)

Box 2117

• "Dewey and Ziebach Counties Comprehensive Water and Sewer Plan," Brady Engineering Company, 1969
• "Comprehensive Water and Sewer Plan, Perkins County, South Dakota," Clark and Enersen-Olsson, Burroughs and Thompson, 1970
• "Comprehensive Water and Sewer Plan, Jackson and Washabaugh Counties, South Dakota," Brady Engineering company, 1970
• "Preliminary Comprehensive Water and Sewer Plan, Haakon County, South Dakota," Clark and Enersen-Olsson, Burroughs and Thompson, 1970
• "Jones County Comprehensive Plan," Schmucker, Paul, Nohr and Associates, 1970
• "Gregory County, South Dakota, Comprehensive Water and Sewer Plan," Harold Hoskins and Associates, n.d.
• "South Dakota Rural Water Survey," Water Resources Institute, South Dakota State University, in cooperation with the Cooperative Extension Service and the Department of Water and Natural Resources, July 1976
• "Report on Joint Meeting, Conservancy Sub-Districts and South Dakota Conservancy District, December 1, 1972"
• "Concept Study of the Multi-Use Development of the Proposed Energy-Peaking Pumped Storage Facility at the Fort Randall Reservoir on the Missouri River, Proposed Abstract," Old West Regional Commission, n.d.
• "South Dakota West River Aqueduct Financing Analysis," South Dakota Department of Water and Natural Resources, Division of Water Development, June 1981
• Paper, "Bechtel-ETSI" (Energy Transportation System Inc.)
• "Testimony by East River Electric Power Cooperative Inc., for the Senate Water Resources Subcommittee of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, April 23, 1981"
• "Attachment 2, Statement Presented by South Dakota Department of Water and Natural Resources at the Public Hearings at Rapid City, South Dakota, December 15, 1980, and at Edgemont, South Dakota, December 16, 1980"
• "Draft, Minutes of 20th Regular Meeting of the Missouri River Basin Commission, Omaha Hilton Hotel, Omaha Nebraska, May 3-5, 1977"
• "Information Brochure for Gregory County Pumped Storage Facility"
• "Watershed District Organization and Operations Procedure Guide for South Dakota," U.S. Department of Agriculture and South Dakota Extension service, soil and Water Conservation Committee, Water Resources Commission, January 1967
• "Special Report 36, Ground Water Supply for the City of Winner," South Dakota Geological Survey, 1966
• "Special Report 49, Ground Water Investigation for the City of Gregory," S.D. Geological Survey, November 1969
• S.D. Geological Report, City of Bonesteel and East Gregory Rural Water Study
• "Special Report 48, Ground Water Investigation for the City of Colome," S.D. Geological Survey, October 1969
• "Special Report 18, Water Supply for the City of Burke," S.D. Geological Survey, June 1962
• "Engineering Design Report No. 1, Lyman-Jones Rural Water System, Presho, South Dakota," Schmucker, Paul, Nohr and Associates, June 1982
• "Technical Paper, Municipal, Industrial, Energy, and Rural Domestic Water Use," Missouri Basin States Association, February 1982
• "Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Report, Gregory County Pumped Storage Project," U.S. Department of the Interior, May 1982
• "1982-1983 State Comprehensive Water Planning Process," S.D. Department of Water and Natural Resources, August 1982
• "1983-1984 State Comprehensive Water Planning Process," S.D. Department of Water and Natural Resources, July 1983
• "Report on Pine Ridge Unit, South Dakota-Nebraska, White Division, Missouri River Basin Project," Bureau of Reclamation, Region 6, September 1968
• "Western South Dakota River Basins," U.S. Department of Agriculture, August 1979
• "Proceedings of the Second Annual Missouri River Basin Governors’ Conference, Held in Conjunction with the Twentieth Meeting of the Missouri River Basin Commission, May 3-5, 1977," Missouri River Basin Commission, n.d.

FB 323

• Comprehensive Water and Sewer Plan 1970-1990, Todd and Tripp Counties," Schoell, Madson, and Vosler, 1970
• "Inventory of Water Supply Needs in Western South Dakota Which Could Potentially Be Satisfied by the West River Aqueduct," Utility Engineering Corporation, April 1982 (2 versions)
• "A Conceptual Study of a Missouri River-Wyoming Aqueduct," Consolidated Engineering, 1975

Box 2118A

• "Appendixes to the Feasibility Report on Grass Rope Unit," Bureau of Reclamation, September 1979
• "Draft, Western South Dakota River Basin," U.S. Department of Agriculture, n.d.

West River Conservancy Sub-District, Rural Water Needs Study 1979 (85-166)

Box 1312

• Rural Water Needs Studies for Corson, Perkins, Zeibach and Dewey Counties, questionnaires

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