Rural Growth Brings Better Water to the Black Hills

Expanding service in South Dakota’s rural, rocky terrain presents economic and logistical challenges for young water system.
Rural Growth Brings Better Water to the Black Hills
New pipe lies on the ground where the Southern Black Hills Water System is expanding service to new customers. Rugged terrain has made development challenging and costly.

In South Dakota’s southern Black Hills, where Mount Rushmore honors American presidents on one mountain face and the Crazy Horse Memorial graces another, Don Peterson’s job might be the most monumental of all.

Peterson is trying to get clean, quality water to people who, in...

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