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SD planning to replace Missouri River bridge
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Transportation Department has started the planning process to replace the highway bridge over the Missouri River between Pierre and Fort Pierre.
• The department is searching for an engineering consultant to determine the location and kind of structure that will eventually replace the current bridge. The study also will involve completing the environmental process required before a new bridge is designed.
• The bridge construction project is expected to be completed sometime after 2020.
• The bridge carries traffic on U.S. Highway 14, U.S. Highway 83 and state Highway 34.
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Residents battle high water in South Dakota town
DAVE KOLPACK,Associated Press
• WAUBAY, S.D. (AP) -- Standing along a South Dakota waterfront shored up with boulders, Kevin Jens peered at the placid lake and reminisced about a road that led to a popular place to fish and picnic nearby but now lies underwater after being swallowed up by rising waters.
• "There's an island under there," the mayor of Waubay said, breaking into an uncomfortable laugh and pointing to a grove of dead trees jutting from the water about a mile away.
• At a time when much of the Upper Midwest wrestled with the worst drought in decades, residents in this northeastern South Dakota community that sits among a chain of glacial lakes are raising roads, draining fields, moving their homes or leaving town. The dry weather has stabilized lakes, but homeowners in the town of about 550 are still dealing with a wet cycle that started in the early 1990s and has slowly gobbled up houses and land.
• Waubay has seen its population drop by more than 100 since 2000, and residents fear losing the town that was founded as a railroad stop 130 years ago.
• "What really makes them worry is where is our tax base and where is our reve (Continued on page 18)
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