Re: Water pipeline?

Posted by Jal-sd on December 09, 2020 at 11:22:31 from (142.0.9.52):

In Reply to: Water pipeline? posted by rrman61 on December 09, 2020 at 04:37:31:

Sever large and long domestic water system pipelines have been constructed in North & South Dakota that are fed from the resivours behind the Missouri River main stem dams. ND & it's Indian Tribes sacrificed more than 400,000 acres of prime farmland for it's resivour. SD and it's Indian Tribes gave up more than 530,000 acres for the resivours in SD. Some of these rural water systems were 100% paid for by the Federal Government. This was for compensation for promised irrigation systems that were never built. The irrigation systems were supposed to replace crop production lost to the flooded land. Only one small system was ever built in SD. The Garrison Diversion project was the only one that I know of that was built in ND.

The Missouri River main stem dams were built to prevent flooding on the lower Missouri and the Mississippi below St Louis. They'll also supply water for navigation during the late summer navigation season to the Missouri & Mississippi River transportation systems. Electricity for the upper mid-west is also generated by the dams.

One of the major pipelines, financed by the Feds, in ND pulls water from just above the Garrison Dam and supplies domestic water across SW ND and even supplies a rural water system in extreme NW SD. Another major Fed financed pipeline in SD draws water above the Oahe Dam near Pierre and delivers water to the Pine Ridge Reservation, more than 200 miles away. Another draws water from the East side of the Oahe resivour and delivers water to Aberdeen nearly 160 miles away. There are a couple of other "Fed funded" lines have been or are still being built. The Lewis & Clark Rural Water System is still working to deliver Missouri River water to communities in Iowa, Minnesota & SD, including Sioux Falls.

As previously indicated, some of these systems were built by the Federal Government to compensate the states for land taken for the resivours. However, there are other large systems that organized not-for-profit corporations, borrowed construction funds, primarily from Federal & State sources. These systems have literally thousands of miles of pipelines and serve thousands of customers within SD. In my opinion, there are still these kinds of projects that are needed in various parts this country. People that need them just need to organize and go after the finances to build them. I worked in SD & ND with folks to do just that for 32 years and enjoyed every minute of it.

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