NORTHWESTERN DIVISION Omaha District
Birds at a backwater wetland area that was recently constructed as part of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe natural resources preservation and ecosystem restoration project. The Tribal Partnership Program construction project was recently completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and is the first to be completed in the nation. USACE PHOTO BY DELANIE STAFFORD
Omaha District Completes First Construction Project Under Tribal Partnership Program The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District recently completed an $11.6 million project in partnership with the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe (LBST) to address erosion of shoreline banks in Lower Brule, South Dakota.
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ce and wave action from Lake Sharpe has steadily eroded LBST land since the Fort Randall and Big Bend dams became operational in 1956
BY DELANIE STAFFORD
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and 1966. Prior studies have shown that the shoreline along the project area was eroding at a pace of approximately 13 feet per year, resulting in more than 500 acres of lost land. As a result, environmental habitats were degraded and wastewater
sewage lagoons that service the LBST were threatened. “The whole part of this project to really remember and think about is protecting the shoreline – to protect the land here now,” said LBST Chairman Clyde Estes during a
