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.Source: 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.
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