Reliable. Resourceful. Responsible. Those are good words to describe the people of South Dakota, a frontier state with the fifth lowest population density in the United States.
They’re also good words to describe Bill Sarringar, Ron Ramsey, Shane Bothwell and Al Thomas of the sprawling Mid-Dakota Rural Water System. On their watch, the capacity of the Mid-Dakota Water Treatment Plant is being expanded by 50 percent, from 9 mgd to 13.5 mgd, facilitating new connections and expanding water availability in the system’s 7,000-square-mile, 14-county service area.
The project, budgeted at up to $7 million, is also increasing raw water and treated water
