GRANITE FALLS, Minn. — Looking to meet a growing demand by rural residents as well as many small, rural communities for water, Lincoln Pipestone Rural Water is embarking on a three-year, $43.2 million project to add new water sources, and build new water treatment and storage, pipeline and pumping stations.

Groundbreaking took place earlier this month on the construction of a new water treatment plant about 1½ miles west of Boyd in Lac qui Parle County, Jason Overby, general manager of the water system, told the Yellow Medicine County Board of Commissioners on Sept. 9.

The new plant will use a lime treatment process to soften the water, and will be able to treat up to 1.8 million gallons of water a day.

Overby told the board that work would begin soon on an 800,000-gallon water stor

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