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BY KAREN ROBISON
Information/Education Coordinator, CSWCD
More than forty years ago the Watershed Protection & Flood Prevention Act (Public Law 83-566 usually referred to as PL-566) was established in hopes of controlling the extensive damage caused by flooding and sedimentation. The words of this original legislation ring out as a message of concern for our citizens and our environment.
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that erosion, floodwater, and sediment damages in the watersheds of the rivers and streams of the United States, causing loss of life and damage to property, constitute a menace to the national welfare; and that it is the sense of congress that the Federal Government should cooperate with the States and their political subdivisions, soil or water conservation districts, flood prevention of control districts, and other local public agencies for the purpose of preventing such damages, of furthering the conservation, development, utilization, and disposal of water, and the conservation and utilization of land and thereby of preserving, protecting, and improving the Nation’s land and water resources and the quality of the environment.
In an effort to control the negative effects of flooding and sediment, this law gave the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) the power to work
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