APPANOOSE COUNTY, IOWA -- In our continuing coverage of Black History Month, we share with you the story of a USDA Civil Engineer who is helping to reduce flooding on your crop land.
Lya Hatton Williams has worked in Iowa for the USDA for the past 12 years as an engineer in the Natural Resources Conservation Service agency. It has been her responsibility to design and oversee the construction of more than 50 dams in the Soap Creek Watershed, which runs through Monroe, Appanoose, Davis, and Wapello Counties. She says she moved to Ottumwa three years ago after living in Des Moines for almost a decade.
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