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The Oldest Daily Newspaper Of The Dakotas • www.yankton.net VOLUME 136, NUMBER 7475 CENTS

BY RANDY DOCKENDORFrandy.dockendorf@yankton.net

OLIVET — State officials are racingagainst the clock, working on a HutchinsonCounty resolution determining the coun-ty’s future with the James River WaterDevelopment District (JRWDD).

The 2010 South Dakota Legislature

passed SB 184, under which county com-missioners can allow county residents todecide whether to stay or withdraw from awater district.

Hutchinson County put the question ofJRWDD membership on the November bal-lot, shortly after the law went into effectJuly 1, said County Auditor JeanieSimonsen.

“The commissioners passed this (reso-lution) at their July 6 meeting,” she said.“It now goes to the Board of Water andResources (for certification).”

A simple majority will decide the issue,Simonsen said. If voters decide to leavethe JRWDD, Hutchinson County wouldbecome one of the state’s first counties towithdraw from a water district under thenew law.

The resolution has reached state offi-cials in Pierre, who face next month’s elec-

tion deadlines.The attorney general’s office is working

on the wording of the Hutchinson Countyballot measure. In addition, the stateDepartment of Environment and NaturalResources (DENR) must file a resolutionwith the secretary of state.

Ballots need to be finalized within thenext three weeks, said Kea Warne, thestate’s elections supervisor.

“The ballot language needs to be

HUTCHINSON COUNTY

Water Dispute Headed For Nov. Ballot

BY NATHAN JOHNSONnathan.johnson@yankton.net

The Yankton CountyCommission bid farewellTuesday to extension educatorSharon Guthmiller.

After approximately 13 yearswith the Yankton CountyExtension Office, Guthmiller istaking on a job in PenningtonCounty, where she will be closerto her family.

A short going-away partyoccurred during Tuesday’s com-mission meeting.

“She’s been quite a leader inthe community and has takenon a lot of things that weren’tdone in the past,” CommissionChairman Bruce Jensen said.“Her shoes are going to be hardto fill.”

Guthmiller specializes in fam-ily and consumer sciences.

While some counties havediscontinued their support ofthe South Dakota CooperativeExtension Service, Jensen saidYankton County will keep fund-ing its presence.

“We think it is important,” hesaid.

It could be a long process tofind a new extension educator,according to Jensen. He said thecounty will focus on finding theright person for the positionand will not rush it.

The service is an outreacharm of South Dakota StateUniversity and brings educa-tional programs and research-based information to the citi-zens of the state. Its five pro-gram areas are agriculture andnatural resources, family andconsumer sciences, communitydevelopment, 4-H and youthdevelopment, and NativeAmerican programs.

In other business Tuesday,the commission:

• discussed the YanktonCounty Highway Shop con-struction project that commis-sioners hope to get under waythis year. Commissioner BillTamisiea said he is working ona budget outlay based on the

BY NATHAN JOHNSONnathan.johnson@yankton.net

The landing was successful.During this past weekend, employees of

Central Trenching, Inc. (CTI) of Minot, N.D.,managed to “land” a directional bore in asmall pad of concrete just east of theDiscovery Bridge on the South Dakota side.The hole was commissioned by the City ofYankton for a pipeline that will transportwater from a pair of wells in Nebraska tothe municipal water treatment system.

From his perch in the directional drillingrig along the Nebraska shoreline late lastweek, Curt Curtis was hoping everythingwould go smoothly. CTI employees begandrilling the approximately 1,500-foot-longbore July 12. It goes down about 110 feet —which is approximately 80 feet below theriver bottom.

“The hard part of this drill is the exitpoint,” Curtis said. “We’ve got such a smallwindow on the other side, and we’re soclose to the shore of the river.”

The CTI crew had to backtrack from aninitial pilot hole when it became apparentthat the drill didn’t have the right angle.

An orange dot on a slab of pavementalong the Missouri River below WaterTreatment Plant No. 1 indicated the spotwhere the drill would eventually emerge.

Once the pilot bore is complete, incre-mentally larger reamers are sent through it.Ultimately, a 30-inch pipe will be pulledthrough the hole from the South Dakotaside.

That process will cause a slight disrup-tion for the community’s residents, accord-ing to Yankton Environmental ServicesDirector Kyle Goodmanson.

If everything goes according to plan,

Cedar Street between Riverside Drive andSecond Street will be closed the week ofAug. 2 as the pipe is laid out and preparedfor the pull.

Welfl Construction Corporation is thegeneral contractor for the $2,380,000 proj-ect that will result in the construction oftwo vertical gravel pack wells, two wellhouses, a transmission main below theMissouri River to the water plant in Yanktonand west water intake improvements. It willalso include demolition of Yankton’s eastwater intake once the wells are operational.

Watching Curtis operate the directionaldrilling rig, the job can look deceptivelyeasy, he admits. Sitting in an air-conditionedtrailer, he uses joysticks and data displaysto control the operation. A large windowallows him to keep his eyes on the drillingdevice and the employees working on it.

KELLY HERTZ/P&DLEFT: Late last week, employees of CentralTrenching, Inc. (CTI) of Minot, N.D., were working to“land” an approximately 1,500-foot directional boreunder the Missouri River in this small pad of concretejust east of the Discovery Bridge on the SouthDakota shore. They did so successfully during theweekend. ABOVE: Curt Curtis, a 30-year veteran ofthe industry, operates the directional drilling riglocated just south of the Missouri River belowHighway 81.

HittingThe Spot

BY CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABERAP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON — The unem-ployment rate fell in most statesin June, mainly because morepeople gave up searching forwork and were no longer count-ed.

Fewer states saw job increas-es, the latest evidence that theeconomic recovery is slowing.

The jobless rate declined in39 states and Washington, D.C.last month, the LaborDepartment said Tuesday. That’sa slight improvement from May,when 37 states saw their ratesdecline.

But only 21 states saw net jobgains in June, the government

said. Thatcomparedto 41 thepreviousmonth andis thefewest thisyear.

Thedecline in

job creation reflects the layoff ofthousands of temporary censusworkers. Those jobs inflatedtotal payrolls in May and thenreduced them in June.

Still, the report also indicatedthat businesses aren’t hiringmany new workers. Nationwide,private employers added a netgain of only 83,000 jobs lastmonth. The national unemploy-

ment rate dropped to 9.5 percentin June from 9.7 percent the pre-vious month, as about 650,000people stopped looking for work.

New York’s unemploymentrate fell to 8.2 percent from 8.3percent the previous month. Butthe state lost 8,500 private-sec-tor jobs, the second-straightdecline in private employment.California’s unemployment ratealso declined, but the stategained just 1,300 private-sectorjobs.

Wisconsin, meanwhile, sawits jobless rate fall to 7.9 percentfrom 8.2 percent the previousmonth. But the state’s workforce fell by 13,600, suggesting

Drillers Dig Under River To Find Water For Yankton

Unemployment Rate Falls In 39 States

Residents’ Vote Will Determine Result

YanktonCo. Bids

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