A ribbon cutting ceremony will begin at 3 p.m. Wednesday to celebrate Madison, South Dakota’s connection to the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System. After a 34 ½ year wait, Madison began receiving water on Aug. 2.
Speakers at the ribbon cutting, which will take place at Lewis & Clark’s new ground storage reservoir three miles east of Madison, include U.S. Sen. John Thune, U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds, U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson, Bureau of Reclamation Deputy Commissioner Roque Sanchez, Bureau of Reclamation Regional Director Brent Esplin, Madison Mayor Roy Lindsay and Lewis & Clark Chairman Murray Hulstein.
The address is 45902 234th St., rural Wentworth. The ceremony is expected to last about 45 minutes.
The Lewis & Clark Regional Water System is a wholesale provider of water to 20 member cities and rural water systems in a 5,000-square-mile area (size of Connecticut) in southeast South Dakota, northwest Iowa and southwest Minnesota. Groundbreaking was on Aug. 21, 2003, construction began in earnest in 2004, and operations started on July 30, 2012. Water is currently being delivered to 18 members — Beresford, Centerville, Harrisburg, Hull, Lennox, Lincoln County RWS, Lincoln Pipestone RWS, Luverne, Minnehaha Community Water Corp, Parker, Rock County RWD, Rock Rapids, Sheldon, Sioux Center, Sioux Falls, South Lincoln RWS, Tea and Worthington.
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