The Minnesota Legislature will loan twenty two million dollars to the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System. The money will pay for construction of pipelines to connect some cities and rural water systems to the regional pipeline.
Lewis & Clark Executive Director Troy Larson says they have had to turn to the member states because of a lack of federal funding…
The water is pumped from wells south of Vermillion along the Missouri river, and then piped to towns and cities in South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota.
Larson says the Congressional representatives from the three states have to keep the pressure on…
While the South Dakota legislature has also contributed one million dollars, Larson says they will be back next year, asking for more help…
The system is about seventy percent done, and years behind schedule. Total cost of the system is about three hundred million dollars.
