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Voters passed ordinance banning city’s action; county says state permit overrides it

Water quality advocates in Custer County want the state Supreme Court to make the county enforce a voter-backed ordinance barring the discharge of treated wastewater into a creek by the city of Custer. The city studied four options for discharge and chose French Creek. Since 1972, the city had discharged treated wastewater into Flynn Creek. […] The post Water advocates ask state Supreme Court to block city of Custer discharges into French Creek appeared first on South Dakota Searchlight.

Kevin Woster digs into the controversy surrounding the building of a new wastewater treatment-and-disposal system for the city of Custer.

I am writing a series on the fabled “Curse of Karl,” or the legend that no South Dakota senator can serve four full terms. Only Sen. Karl Mundt was elected four times, and a devastating stroke left him incapable of serving the second half of his final term. So how does Sen. Francis Case belong in this series? Case didn’t seek a fourth term. In fact, he died in 1962 before his second term was up, as he prepared to run for a third one. Like six other South Dakota senators, voters didn’t reject him; illness or death ended his career.