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State commissioner outlines Richmond Lake dam repair timeline; residents press county to clarify upstream control
Summary
South Dakota Commissioner Brock Greenfield told Brown County officials the Richmond Lake dam repair has firmed up a construction schedule and additional state funding after higher-than-expected bids; residents asked the county to research who controls upstream gates and water rights before lake drawdowns. (Short)
Brock Greenfield, South Dakota Commissioner of School and Public Land, told the Brown County Commission that engineers discovered the dam’s cutoff wall needed more extensive repair than the original spillway-only plan, and that March bidding produced prices above earlier estimates. Greenfield said state staff and contractors worked with FEMA and the legislature to secure additional appropriations and to re-bid the work so the project could proceed.
Greenfield summarized why the project grew in scope and cost. “When the bids were opened on March 4 … they were outside the realm of what we had had appropriated up until then,” he said, adding that clarifications and a second opening on March 27 reduced the low bid by about $1.4 million and lowered the amount the state needed to request by…
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