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Water system to celebrate finish

| Wednesday, August 09, 2006

PIERRE (AP) — The Mid-Dakota Rural Water System plans a celebration in Miller on Saturday to observe the pending finish of the federally funded portion of the project.

October completion of a pipeline southeast of Huron will mark the end of 13 years of construction.

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The system, which delivers water from Lake Oahe to customers in a 7,000-square-mile area, started in 1994 with the construction of the reservoir pumping station.

Mid-Dakota, conceived as a $108 million project in 1989, now is estimated to cost $155 million.

The water system serves 30,000 people in 13 South Dakota counties, including Hughes, Sully, Hyde, Hand, Beadle and parts of Potter, Faulk, Spink, Kingsbury, Sanborn, Aurora, Jerauld and Buffalo.

The celebration will be at Mid-Dakota’s Miller office and include tours of the booster system and water storage tank in Wolsey.

The Wolsey facility, which includes an underground booster pump and elevated tank, is one of the largest prefabricated stations ever built in the United States, said Kurt Pfeifle, Mid-Dakota general manager.

Finishing a pipeline southeast of Huron in October “is the last in a number of similar contracts that we’ve completed,” Pfeifle said. “It’s the last of 11 distribution pipeline contracts, and it will mark the end of the initial project.”

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