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Lewis & Clark Regional Water System Needs Help

Lewis & Clark Regional Water System Needs Help

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The Lewis & Clark Regional Water System is looking to hire more water plant operators.

Executive Director Troy Larson says they are seeing more water demand…

 

The water system draws their water from wells near the Missouri River south of Vermillion. The water plant is north of Vermillion.

Larson says they also want to extend the operating hours of the water treatment plant…

 

Larson says while they are ramping up the water works, they have plenty of capacity…

 

The regional water system has about half their members connected to the pipeline. They will eventually deliver water to towns and cities in South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota.

 

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