Dakota Access Pipeline Constructors Update Beadle County Officials

Dakota Access LLCThe parties involved with the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline met with Beadle County officials Wednesday. Wisconsin-based Michels Pipeline Construction will be installing the pipe…

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Operations for Spread Five of the pipeline will be based in Huron. Spread Five extends for 126 miles from State Highway 20 in Faulk County, through Spink, Beadle, Kingsbury and Miner Counties, to County Road 55 in Lake County. Beadle County Commission Chair Rick Benson says he’s confident Dakota Access will take care of any damage to the county’s road system…

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Benson says township roads may also be impacted by construction…

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Condition Nine of the pipeline’s permit from the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission mandate that meetings like this take place with county officials along the pipeline’s route. Construction is expected to begin this May with final project clean up by the late fall of 2016 or spring next year.