Standing Rock Sioux Tribe - Department of Water Resources

Select Committee on Paleontology Resources  –  10/24/06
Chairman His Horse Is Thunder established a Select Committee on Paleontology Resources.  

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Reservation District Outreach and Public Education  –  10/24/06
The Department of Water Resources will be scheduling and holding meetings. 

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Great Plains Tribal Water Alliance (GPTWA)  –  10/24/06
In the early 1990's, the Standing Rock, Oglala and Rosebud Sioux Tibes created the Mni Sose Inter-Tribal Water Rights Coalition. 

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Proposed Economic Development Account Legislation  –  10/24/06
In 2003, under the Murphy Administration, meetings were held in Washington, D.C. with the North Dakota and South Dakota Congressional delegations. 

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Sedimentation Study  –  10/24/06
Preliminary work has been initiated by the Department of Water Resources to determine the level and type of contamination that may be present in the sediment in the Missouri River and Tributaries within the boundaries of the Standing Rock Reservation. 

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Missouri River Hydology Model  –  10/24/06
At a recent water meeting held on Standing Rock, a suggestion was made to develop a hydrologic model of the Missouri River Basin. 

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Water Quality Study  –  10/12/06
In August and September of 2006 the Department collaborated with the USGS office in Bismarck, N.D. to conduct a reservation wide water quality study. 

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Access Roads  –  10/10/06
Findings indicate the need for additional emergency access roads leading into and out of the city of Fort Yates, North Dakota. 

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Multi-Purpose Impoundment Structure  –  10/12/06
This is a long term project and is currently in the preliminary stages.  

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Dams  –  10/12/06
Standing Rock Dam No.1 and Keepseagle Dam have been placed under the responsibility of the Department of Water Resources. 

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Return of Taken Area Lands  –  10/12/06
In 1958 the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers acquired almost 56,000 acres of the tribe's prime bottom lands located along the Missouri River for the Oahe Dam and Reservoir project. 

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