A committee assembled shortly after last month’s flood to start looking at possible flood mitigation along the Little Sioux River held its second meeting on Tuesday.
The group discussed possibly expanding the Little Sioux River Headwaters Coalition, a watershed management authority. That entity is governed through a 28E agreement currently made up solely of cities in Dickinson County and the county itself. Under the proposal, that group would be expanded to include cities in Clay County, those in portions of Cherokee and Buena Vista counties, and their respective boards of supervisors.
Allen Batschelet is on the Clay County Board of Supervisors…
Batschelet feels confident expanding the Little Sioux River Headwaters Coalition would be an effective move at addressing flood mitigation downstream…
A date for the next meeting of the Little Sioux River Flood Control Committee will likely be held in late August.
(thanks to fellow Community First Broadcasting station KUOO in Spirit Lake)
