(Tea, SD)– The Lewis & Clark water system is getting additional federal funding.
Executive Director Troy Larson says the FY24 Energy & Water Appropriations Bill that received final congressional approval by the Senate on March 8 includes $18.825 million for the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System. It includes the $6.825 million proposed by the Administration in its FY24 Budget, as well as a $12 million congressional spending request.
Larson says the vast majority of the funds would be used toward the construction of Phase 3 of Lewis & Clark’s water treatment plant near Vermillion, SD. This project will allow the plant to produce the combined reserved capacities of 44.19 million gallons a day of its 20 member cities and rural water systems in southeast South Dakota, northwest Iowa and southwest Minnesota.
Bids will be opened on March 21 for Phase 3.
(Courtesy Community First Broadcasting station KIWA in Sheldon)
