PIERRE — The Pierre City Commission received a grant award Tuesday night to help pay for improvements to Pierre’s waste water treatment system. Lynnette Eckert is manager of the Central Plains Water Development District…
The District began in the late 1980’s and is comprised of Hughes, Faulk, Potter, Sully and Hyde Counties. The South Dakota legislature permitted the District to raise funds for projects through a small mill levy around the time the Mid-Dakota Rural Water System began. Eckert says the District sees Pierre building for the future…
Eckert says Pierre does a good job of sharing its needs with the District’s board…
The City of Pierre processes one-point-million-five gallons of wastewater every day. The wastewater plant redesign project has an estimated cost of 15-point-three million dollars.
