DORGAN SAYS WATER PLANT FULFILLS PROMISE BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, INVESTS IN FUTURE OF NORTH DAKOTA
Friday, October 17, 2008
CONTACT: Justin Kitsch
or Brenden Timpe
PHONE: 202-224-2551
(BISMARCK, N.D.) – U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), who secured funding for a new rural water treatment plant that will serve residents of Wilton and northern Burleigh County, was present Friday for a ceremony dedicating the new facility. He said the facility is an important investment in south-central North Dakota that shows the region is on the move.
Dorgan, Chairman of the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee, secured $3 million last year for the new plant in the annual appropriations bill he writes. He included another $6 million in this year’s bill, which is still pending, to continue expansion of the South Central Regional Water project. When the expansion is completed, it will serve an estimated 5,500 users in Burleigh, Emmons, Logan and McIntosh counties.
“This new treatment plant is about providing a good-quality, dependable source of water for residents of Wilton and rural Burleigh County,” Dorgan said. “When the federal government asked our state to accept a permanent flood, we were promised that we’d be able to use that water for our communities. When I assumed the chairmanship of the appropriations committee that funds water issues, I was determined to make sure our state finally saw those benefits. This treatment plant is both the fulfillment of an old promise and an investment in the future, and I’m proud we were able to work together to get it done.”
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