Photo: SD Civil Air Patrol for SD Office of Emergency Management
PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) — Last summer’s massive flooding in southeast South Dakota is still on some legislators’ minds. Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources Secretary Hunter Roberts answered some pointed questions about flooding in McCook Lake. In a hearing before the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources committee, Senator Kevin Jensen of Canton asked Roberts :
Secretary Roberts responded…
Roberts also noted that McCook Lake is an oxbow of the Missouri River and it was a thousand-year event.



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