Broadcaster Press 5 June 21, 2016 www.broadcasteronline.com Zoning Protection For Wellfields After Secretive Funding In Primaries, Krebs Plans Campaign Finance Review Receives First Reading By David Lias david.lias@plaintalk.net The Clay County Commission gave first reading Tuesday to two new ordinances designed to provide zoning protections near the wellfield by the Missouri River in an area located south of Vermillion that is the source of water for the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System. “The reason for the requested change from Lewis & Clark is to give us the highest level of protection available in the ordinances for the aquifer and the groundwater that we’re drawing from,” Jim Auen, operations manager for the Lewis & Clark water system, told county commissioners Tuesday. One ordinance amends the 2013 revised joint zoning regulations for Clay County and the city of Vermillion, and the second ordinance amends the 2013 revised zoning regulations for Clay County by rezoning certain property. Both amendments affect properties in Vermillion Township, including Sections 1 and 2 (South), 25, 26, 34, 35, and 36. The zoning classification of properties in these sections, under the new ordinances, will be changed to APO – Zone A (Aquifer Protection Overlay District Zone A – Aquifer Critical Impact Zones). Lewis & Clark is providing critically needed water to a large area of southeastern South Dakota, northwestern Iowa, and southwest Minnesota, he said. “Hundreds of thousands of people every day are receiving treated water from the Lewis & Clark system, as well as hundreds of thousands of livestock,” Auen said. “The zoning change is going to help ensure that the aquifer remains a high quality source of water both today and into the future. This is the same level of protection that Clay Rural Water System currently has around their wellfield.” The Lewis & Clark water system began drawing water from the wellfield in July 2012, after the completion of the system’s water treatment plant, located three miles north of Vermillion. “We’ve been operating for almost four years now, and shortly after we started operating, we started working with the South Dakota Rural Water Association to work on what’s called a source water assessment,”Auen said. “These assessments are required by the South Dakota Department of Natural Resources (SDDNR), and the EPA, and as part of that, we needed to delineate an area of the aquifer that we are drawing out of, and essentially map the aquifer that is of primary importance to us.” A Source Water Assessment for the Lewis & Clark Rural Water System, required by the federal Safe Water Drinking Act, was conducted in 2015 by the SDDNR. 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Raw water is collected from the aquifers near the Missouri River south of Vermillion, and treated in the water treatment plant three miles north of Vermillion in 2012. From there, water is distributed through a network of pipelines, pump stations and storage reservoirs. The project, when complete, will deliver water to 20 existing rural water systems and municipalities throughout the region, including the city of Sioux Falls. The system will provide safe drinking water through its members to over 300,000 people in South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota. Lewis & Clark's member systems will use this new source of water to either replace or supplement existing sources of supply. Fiscal year 2016 funding for construction for this project is $2.8 million. The system will distribute treated water through 337 miles of pipeline to members in a roughly 5,000 square mile area -- the size of Connecticut. In addition to a traditional lime treatment facility, the non-looped system will also include a series of pump stations and reservoirs. The maximum capacity from the completed system will be 45 million gallons per day (MGD) with the ability to expand to 60 MGD in the future. The 45 MGD represents less than three-tenths of 1 percent of the average daily flow of the Missouri River. Lewis & Clark began delivering water to 11 of its 20 members on July 30, 2012. Members receiving water include Beresford, Centerville, Harrisburg, Lennox, Lincoln County RWS, Minnehaha Community Water Corp (one of three connections), Parker, Sioux Falls, Rock Rapids, South Lincoln RWS and Tea. The schedule to connect the remaining nine members is dependent upon federal funding levels. In addition to the other two connections for Minnehaha Community Water Corp, members still waiting for water include Hull, Lincoln Pipestone RWS, Luverne, Rock County RWD, Madison, Sheldon, Sibley, Sioux Center and Worthington. Four of these non-connected members are in Iowa, four in Minnesota and one in South Dakota. the water supply for water systems and provide a susceptibility rating. The Lewis & Clark Rural Water System’s water supply was evaluated for its relative susceptibility to contamination by potential contaminant sources identified within its source water area. The assessment found that the relative susceptibility rating for the Lewis & Clark Rural Water System is moderate, and identified a highway, cropland, and rangeland/forestland as potential contaminant sources. “Previous reports from 2008 and 2010 show that our potential aquifer area to be a much larger area than what we’re looking at today, but in order to be as accurate as possible, we worked with the South Dakota Geological Survey, and they actually installed a series of monitoring wells adjacent to our wellfield to help us better understand and delineate the area of the aquifer that we’re drawing from,” Auen told commissioners. “Monitoring data from this wells, and other data was compiled under different seasonal conditions and pumping rates to ultimately prepare the map that was accepted by the SDDNR and it is before you today. “It’s that map that we’re using to request the zoning change,” he said. “This is the area of the aquifer that is most critical to the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System.” The susceptibility analysis provides a relative rating compared to other public water supplies in South Dakota, not an absolute rating. Therefore, a water supply with a high susceptibility rating has a higher potential of becoming contaminated than public water supplies with moderate or low ratings, due to a variety of factors. “Aquifer contamination happens with an alarming rate of regularity. Just in this region, in the last 20 years, I know there have been contamination issues with Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water, the city of Watertown, the city of Madison, and the town of Ellis,” he said. “These things happen, and it’s something that Lewis & Clark (Regional Water System) is very aware of, and we’re trying to get the highest level of protection for the aquifer that is critical to us.” The Lewis & Clark Carpentry, Install Doors, Windows & Siding, Refinishing, Drywall, Ceramic Tile & Decks bpp b Since 1934 Since 1934 B P roadcaster Broadcaster Press by KrazyDad Intermediate Sudoku Puzzles ress Fill the puzzle so that every row, every column, and every section contain the numbers 1-9 without repeating a number. 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Jason Williams said she intends to convene a summer subcommittee with representatives from the Legislature, the state Board of Elections and the business community. Proposed changes will be presented at the October meeting of Board of Elections. “She wants the review to ensure that the public and candidates have access to information that clearly identifies who is funding political committees when the information is most relevant,” Williams said. “The full review of campaign finance laws would also help to make them more straightforward and easy to understand for candidates,” he added. The announcement of the Krebs plan came in the wake of a newspaper report last weekend detailing some of the secretive practices during the June 7 primary campaigns. Another newspaper report is planned for this weekend. One of the shortcomings identified this spring is that a legislative candidate’s committee isn’t required to file a yearend report for non-election years such as 2015. If the candidate doesn’t have a primary election, a pre-primary report isn’t required either. If the candidate didn’t run this year, two years would pass between reports. Those time gaps noticeably came into play this year. Several current legislators made independent expenditures on behalf of legislative candidates who had primaries or made contributions to those candidates’ committees for their primary campaigns. The governor also used his campaign committee to make contributions to some legislative candidates with primaries. Because he isn’t up for election this year, he didn’t have to file a pre-primary either. The sources of the money for the independent expenditures and the donations from legislators’ campaign committees weren’t publicly disclosed however, because the legislators didn’t have primaries and hadn’t filed a report since the end of their 2014 campaigns. 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