The City of Yankton South Dakota heard a pitch by an engineering firm to spend $28.7 million in upgrades to the city’s water treatment system.
The firm, HDR, predicts that by 2015 Yankton will have days of peak use requiring 8.2 million gallons of treated water. By 2035, it will reach 10 million gallons per day during those high-usage periods.
The current total treatment capacity is 8 million gallons per day.
via Yankton Press & Dakotan > Community > Yankton’s Water Woes.
Snow is already coming down in parts of South Dakota and more is expected throughout the day on Friday.
Early Friday, roads in western South Dakota were reported to have snow and ice on them, causing slippery conditions. Those same conditions are now spreading to the east, to the Pierre and Aberdeen areas.
via KELO.
Photo: John Morrell meat packing plant by Don Graham via Flickr
“The federal government in September briefly suspended meat inspections at the John Morrell & Co. packing plant in Sioux Falls because a truck driver was beating his hogs.
“Because uninspected meat cannot be sold, Morrell had to shut down the kill line for about six hours after the early-morning incident Sept. 8. The plant processes more than 17,000 hogs on a typical day,” reports the Argus Leader.
