Water Resources of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South and North Dakota, andRoberts County, South Dakota

摘要

In 1994, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Sisseton-WahpetonSioux Tribe; Roberts County; and the South Dakota Department of Environmental and Natural Resources, Geological Survey Program, began a 6-year investigation to describe and quantify the water resources of the area within the 1867 boundary of the Lake Traverse Reservation and adjacent parts of Roberts County. Roberts County is located in extreme northeastern South Dakota and the 1867 boundary of the Lake Traverse Reservation encompasses much of Roberts County and parts of Marshall, Day, Codington, and Grant Counties in South Dakota and parts of Richland and Sargent Counties in Southeast North Dakota. This report includes descriptions of the quantity, quality, and availability of surface and ground water, the extent of the major glacial and bedrock aquifers and named outwash