Logo Small Mid-Dakota Rural Water System 608 W. 14th St., P.O. Box 318, Miller, SD 57362-0318 Tel: 605-853-3159 Toll-Free: 1-800-439-3079

Enhancing quality of life, and promoting economic development, by providing high-quality water and excellent service.
The Mid-Dakota Rural Water System... serves approximately 5,500 customers including 28 town or community water systems. Mid-Dakota includes approximately 3,800 miles of pipeline with users residing in 14 counties in the east-central portion of South Dakota. Currently Mid-Dakota has completed its final stages of construction on the originally authorized project. However, it is expected that the Mid-Dakota Rural Water System will continue to grow through expansion projects as well as the addition of Post Construction Users (PCU).
Expansion Plans... It's been almost three years since Mid-Dakota reached its system capacity of nine million gallons per day (MGD) and had to impose a moratorium on new hookups. It has been three very long years of toiling to find an affordable expansion solution and working with government financing agencies to identify the means to pay for the upgrades. We are pleased to report that all of the elements for a successful resolution have come together. We have identified a project that will increase our production and delivery capacity from nine MGD to 13.5 MGD, an increase of 50%. Mid-Dakota has now embraced, committed and embarked on expansion plans that are describe throughout this page.


Overall System

 

Intake... Ultimately we will upgrade the pumps and motors at the facility. These upgrades may not take place immediately, they may instead, be deferred down the road to when the need becomes more urgent. If it's determined that the upgrades should occur now, the construction will be included in the water treatment plant contract.

 

 

MDRWS Mosaic

 

Raw Water Storage... The capacity of the raw water storage tanks will be increased from 408,000 gallons to approximately 635,000 gallons. The storage tanks are of bolted glass-lined design and increasing the storage capacity is done by adding "rings" to the tank structure; think grain bin construction, to get a mental picture of the work to be done.

Water Treatment Plant... We'll replace the existing conventional filters (gravel, sand & coal) with a new more efficient submerged membrane filtration system. The pumps and motors will be replaced with larger equipment and much of the process piping will undergo a significant transformation as well.

Treated Water Storage... A new water storage tank ("Canning Tank") will be constructed along Highway 14 approximately nine miles east of Pierre. The tank will be 1.0, 1.5 or 2.0 million gallons of storage, depending upon funds available.