FORT PIERRE, (KCCR) — Could Pierre’s drinking water treatment plant someday be providing Fort Pierre with Missouri River water to drink? During the Fort Pierre Development Corporation annual meeting last week Mayor Gloria Hanson says the city is starting those conversations again…
Fort Pierre is continuing to talk with current water provider West River/Lyman Jones Rural Water about future water supplies. Both are working together to fund a feasibility study about possible expansion of the Mni Wiconi Water Treatment Plant north of Fort Pierre…
Fort Pierre did join on as a member of the Western Dakota Regional Water System. The system is a proposals to pipe Missouri River water to western South Dakota, similar to what Mid Dakota, Web Water and the Lewis and Clark Regional Water System are already doing to bring Missouri River water to numerous eastern South Dakota cities. In the case of Lewis and Clark, that system brings water from near Vermillion to parts of South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota. South Dakota Senators John Thune and Mike Rounds have introduced a bill that includes 10 million dollars for a feasibility study for the Western Dakota system.
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