While preparing for new pipeline construction into southwest Minnesota, the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System is also expanding their treated water production to connected members.
Executive Director Troy Larson says they are ramping up at their treatment plant north of Vermillion…
The plant has a daily capacity of forty million gallons.
Larson says their members have to buy a certain amount of water according to their contracts…
Larson says as their water production increases, they don’t necessarily make more money…
The project is about sixty percent done, due to low federal funding the past few years. The project pumps water from wells near the Missouri River south of Vermillion, and connects to members in South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota.
