{"id":97250,"date":"2016-03-18T15:22:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T20:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=97250"},"modified":"2016-03-18T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T20:22:18","slug":"sd-farmers-concerned-dickey-sargent-drainage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=97250","title":{"rendered":"SD farmers concerned: Dickey, Sargent drainage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-97252\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JameRivermap-1.jpg\" alt=\"JameRivermap\" width=\"94\" height=\"85\" \/>ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) \u2014 Farmers in northeastern South Dakota are worried about a drainage ditch project in southeastern North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>The project was approved in Dickey and Sargent counties two years ago to drain floodwaters into the James River. Construction is to begin this spring.<\/p>\n<p>The American News reports some farmers already have dug private ditches to drain into the main channel.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say project engineers factored that in. But farmers south of the border fear it could increase the amount of water they\u2019ll have to deal with. Brown County farmer Roger Schuller says those producers won\u2019t have any control over the water flow.<\/p>\n<p>Dickey County farmer and project proponent Steve Hanson says it makes sense to channel excess water into a river rather than have it \u201call over the ground going everywhere<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-91248\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/OpenJamesRiver-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"OpenJamesRiver\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/OpenJamesRiver-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/OpenJamesRiver-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/OpenJamesRiver.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-97251\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/JameRivermap.jpg\" alt=\"JameRivermap\" width=\"94\" height=\"85\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) \u2014 Farmers in northeastern South Dakota are worried about a drainage ditch project in southeastern North Dakota. The project was approved in Dickey and Sargent counties two years ago to drain floodwaters into the James River. Construction is to begin this spring. The American News reports some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97253,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97250\/revisions\/97253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}