(Washington, D.C.)– U-S Senator Chuck Grassley is calling on the Office of Management and Budget to restore funding to the Lewis and Clark water project.
Last year’s spending bill included seven million dollars for the project, which would pipe treated Missouri River water to southeast South Dakota, northwest Iowa and southwest Minnesota. But the Office of Management and Budget cut the funding to only two million dollars.
Grassley Monday fired off a letter to the office asking for its reasoning in making the huge cut and urging the office to restore the funding.
The Lewis and Clark Rural Water System Authorization became law in July of 2000. The proposed project would serve about 200-thousand people in the region. It would serve several northwest Iowa cities, including Sioux Center, Sibley, Sheldon, Boyden and Hull and would supply water to the Clay Regional Water System.
