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Watershed Advisory Task Force to meet in Mitchell
• MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) -- A task force studying drainage, watersheds, flood control and erosion is holding its first meeting Monday.
• The Regional Watershed Advisory Task Force was created by the 2012 Legislature. The group's first meeting is planned for Monday at 9 a.m. at the Ramada Inn and Suites Conference Center in Mitchell.
• Scheduled to speak are State Climatologist Dennis Todey (TAH'-dee) , Chris Hay of the South Dakota State University agricultural and biosystems engineering department, Clark Moeckly of the Upper Crow Creek Watershed District and Jeff Zimprich of the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
• Officials with Brown, McCook, Kingsbury, and Yankton counties will also make presentations on drainage issues.
• The task force will operate until January 2015.
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More rain, snow could lead to more flooding
JIM SALTER,Associated Press
JIM SUHR,Associated Press
• GRAFTON, Ill. (AP) -- The Mississippi River is topping out at some problematic spots, but there is growing concern that spring floods are far from over.
• The river was at or near crest at several places Sunday between the Quad Cities and near St. Louis. Some towns in the approximate 100-mile stretch of river from Quincy, Ill., to Grafton, Ill., reached 10-12 feet above flood stage.
• The good news was that most businesses and homes were high and dry, though hundreds of acres of farmland were under water, bridges were closed at Quincy and Louisiana, Mo., and countless roads were shutdown.
• But river towns aren't yet in the clear: An inch or more of rain is in the forecast as well as continuing accumulation of snow to the north, especially in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Flood watchers along both the Missouri and Mississippi rivers know that once that snow -- record levels in some cases -- melts, a lot of it ends up in the big rivers.
• The current flooding is bad enough. In scenic Grafton, a small tourist town 40 miles north of St. Louis, floodwater 3 inches deep seeped into the basement of Pam (Continued on page 16)
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