With this year’s federal funding of eighteen million dollars, the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System can start to see the beginning of the end.
Executive Director Troy Larson says they can now put together a definite time line….

While next years proposed federal budget has only one hundred thousand dollars for them, Larson is optimistic the area Congressional delegation can get them back to the eighteen-million-dollar level.
Their water filtration plant north of Vermillion has the capacity to produce about forty million gallons of water a day. Larson says they could provide water to other outside customers…

Larson says they have had some interest in that excess water…

The water project serves towns and rural water systems in South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota.