Industrial ag poisons another South Dakota lake

Honestly, I don't give one shit about what happens East River: it's already been destroyed.

The Lake Byron Sanitary Sewer District has been notified that it's eligible for a $2 million grant, a $3.475 million low interest loan from the South Dakota Board of Water and Natural Resources and for an additional $400,000 loan through the James River Water Development District.

Gayle Kludt is the chair of the Board of Trustees for the District and presided over a Wednesday Huron meeting of some 125.

Many in the audience questioned the propriety of the election that formed the district more than three years ago, according to R. Shawn Tornow, an attorney from Sioux Falls who said he has been retained by the recently organized Lake Byron Concerned Citizens, Inc. In response to a comment and question from the audience, it was noted that a water study had been done about five years earlier that showed most of the pollution was caused by ag runoff. It was stated that there was nothing that guaranteed adding the sewer line would improve the quality of the water in the lake.

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What do you expect when earth hater Eldon Roth of Beef Products, Inc. is South Dakota's fattest donor?

Senator Mike Rounds (earth hater-SD) is not only freaking out the US Army Corps of Engineers are punishing him for his lawsuit blaming the military for 2011 flooding he's telling voters it's okay that South Dakota is a dumping ground for the ag and livestock industries.

Yes, he's calling out "activist interest groups" er, an "environmental activist group" for the court ruling upholding the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA).

Nearly every moving stream, intermittent or not in South Dakota, has supported a pre-settlement Amerindian or European explorer pulling and propelling a canoe over it. Most of it is impaired.

Even before Statehood the US Army Corps of Engineers has had purview over water that flows into bodies that can support navigation. In South Dakota, once it leaves its source, all surface water that flows from or through private property is owned by the state.

The James River is out of its banks near Columbia and in minor flood stage.