Minnesota Senator Al Franken visited the headquarters of the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System in Tea on Saturday, to highlight the need for more federal funding to finish the project.

Project Executive Director Troy Larson says with only minimal funding, the costs continue to rise…

 

Lewis & Clark is set to get just over three million dollars this year, while another twenty seven million dollars has been set aside for all rural water projects.

 

Larson says the earmark ban that Congress imposed on itself has stopped the project dead…

 

Larson says their budget allocation for this year would not allow them to do any construction…