The Nonpoint Source Task Force will meet at 10am December 8th, 2025 in the Matthew Training Center of the Joe Foss Building to consider Section 319 funding applications. The meeting will also be livestreamed. The Board of Water and Natural Resources will meet at a later date to consider the Nonpoint Source Task Force's Section 319 funding recommendations. The Board's recommendations will then be submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for review and approval before grant funds are awarded. Links below lead to project summaries and funding recommendations. Links in the project summaries lead to the project's funding application in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format.
319 Grant Request: $735,000
The goal of this project is to continue to implement best management practices (BMPs) in the Belle Fouche, Horse Creek, and other watersheds to reduce total suspended solids and E. coli levels to meet their assigned beneficial uses. Public outreach to stakeholders and monitoring water quality to track effectiveness of BMPs will also continue throughout the project.
319 Grant Request: $407,000
The goal of the South Dakota Nonpoint Source Information and Education project is to promote and facilitate public understanding of watersheds and related management issues and support for and participation in watershed protection through the continued implementation of the comprehensive, coordinated statewide effort begun in 2004.
319 Grant Request: $800,000
The goal of this three-year project is to improve water quality through planning and implementation of soil health agricultural best management practices (BMPs) and outreach to producers in selected 303(d) listed water bodies in South Dakota. Implementing and promoting best management practices in the watershed that reduce sediment loading and prevent bacterial contamination working to attain total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) developed for the rivers, tributaries and lakes and meet the designated beneficial uses. Outreach will include planning and holding workshops and field demonstration tours to educate and inform producers of ways to manage land to reduce runoff and improve nutrient cycling which will ultimately improve water quality. The project will also provide information and education to local landowners and the public to provide a better understanding of water quality and its relationship to soil health benefits.
319 Grant Request: $1,409,500
The goal of the South-Central Watershed Implementation Project is to restore or protect the beneficial uses in the Lower and Upper James River Watershed, Lewis and Clark Lake, and the watersheds of Geddes, Academy, Platte Lake, Lake Andes Lake, and Vermillion Watershed. This will be accomplished through the installation of Best Management Practices (BMPs) in the watersheds that target sources of sediment, nutrients, and fecal coliform bacteria. This project, Segment III, will address and target BMP installation in the entire South Dakota portion of the Lewis and Clark Lake Watershed (1.9 million acres), the James River Watershed and its tributaries (9.4 million acres), and Vermillion River Watershed (1.43 million acres). It will also provide technical and financial assistance to the watershed activities in the Lake Andes, Geddes, Academy and Platte Lake Watersheds. These additional four watersheds add up to 560,000 additional acres and are tributaries of the Missouri River and Lake Francis Case which lies upriver and borders the Lewis and Clark Lake Watershed. The total project area acreage is 13,360,800 acres.