Rivers, Lakes and Waterways

The South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources is accepting applications for projects eligible for federal Clean Water Act pollution control grants.

Officials are issuing a public health warning over water conditions at Lake Mitchell.

Author and ecologist Carter Johnson walks us through the impacts humans have had on the state's rivers.

Two subpoenas related to disagreement about constructing a canal connected to McCook Lake were quashed in a recent Water Management Board meeting.

The question of when to pull the trigger on a project to clean Lake Mitchell sparked debate at the most recent Mitchell City Council meeting. A vote is slated for next year, but some worry that might be too late.

The City of Custer is moving forward with plans to dump its wastewater into French Creek. That’s despite county voters having recently declared the discharge a nuisance.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials say drought conditions will likely improve in the Missouri River Basin.

Two decades after it first received funding, the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System is near completion. But developers are already looking to build a second pipeline to the Missouri River.

A partnership between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks has expanded a state conservation program that will pay agricultural landowners to turn cropland into wetlands and grasses.

A U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments that could affect South Dakota's ponds, streams, lakes and rivers.