A watershed district may be established for any of the following conservation purposes:

1. (1) Control or allocation of damage by floods by flood prevention structures including levees;
2. (2) Improvement of stream channels;
3. (3) Reclaiming or filling wet and overflowed lands;
4. (4) Providing water supply for irrigation;
5. (5) Regulating the flow and conserving the water of streams;
6. (6) Diverting or changing watercourses in whole or in part;
7. (7) Providing and conserving water supply for domestic, industrial, recreational, and other public use;
8. (8) Providing for sanitation and public health and regulating the use of streams, ditches, or watercourses for the disposition of waste;
9. (9) Relocate, extend, replace, modify, consolidate, or abandon in whole or in part, drainage systems within a watershed district and to operate and maintain drainage systems;
10. (10) Imposition of preventive or remedial measures for the control or alleviation of land and soil erosion and siltation of watercourses or bodies of water affected by erosion;
11. (11) Protection or enhancement of the water quality in watercourses or water basins;
12. (12) Protection of groundwater; and
13. (13) Improvement, restoration, and maintenance of lakes, streams, and wetlands.

Source: SL 1957, ch 492 , § 4; SL 1959, ch 452 , § 2; SDC Supp 1960, § 61.1504; SL 1965, ch 303 , § 2; SDCL § 46-24-4; SL 1989, ch 389 , § 1; SL 2013, ch 228 , § 7.