In the above sketch the Lewis and Clark water pipeline runs nearly parallel to the Big Sioux River but in the opposite direction. South Dakota's socialized dairies are wreaking habitat havoc all along the state's border with Minnesota and like most of East River, southwestern Minnesota and northwestern Iowa are Republican stronghold where dairies, swine units and other concentrated animal feeding operations have devastated water supplies by contaminating wells with nitrates.
Simon Healy is a cattle farmer in Irene who is pushing for several townships to secede from Yankton County. Healy says the idea is join Turner County, which he says is more friendly toward ag producers. In late 2018, three new [Yankton] county commissioners were elected over concern about concentrated animal feeding operation development. [Bill Janklow's idea of public radio]We all know South Dakota is a chemical toilet, sacrifice zone, perpetual welfare state and permanent disaster area so eighteen million more dollars in federal pork are enabling the red moocher state in expanding the Lewis and Clark water system.
The project provides treated water to towns and cities in South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota from wells south of Vermillion near the Missouri River. [WNAX]This isn't self-reliance; it's moral hazard. Instead of empowering communities to harvest snow melt and rain water rural communities continue to be dependent on politicians who exploit need.
Most municipalities don't have the luxury of owning the farmland around their drinking water wells. https://t.co/S1DlkRMe7j— Don Carr (@donpcarr) January 7, 2020
As reported and written by content director @bartpfankuch1 of nonprofit @SDNewsWatch @INN @INNamplify @David_Bordewyk @Nlowrey432 https://t.co/ybreED9dfX— South Dakota News Watch (@SDNewsWatch) December 15, 2019
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