Northeast Radio SD News – Watertown, SD - Structural adjustments to the face of Watertown’s natural infrastructure and municipal recycling policies dominated the executive report during Monday’s City Council session. City Manager Alan Stager presented updates concerning federal flood mitigation designs for the Big Sioux River channel, alongside data-driven realities regarding local glass management programs.

Signs are pointing to South Dakota having more serious talks about protecting the state's waterways from agriculture runoff. That has conservationists feeling hopeful, even with political complications. The legislature's Executive Board received a water quality update last week. For rivers and streams, nearly 80 percent of the stretches evaluated don't support one or more of their beneficial uses, like swimming or fishing.