**News from the Weekly Incontinent on Pipeline near Winner, SD

Recently, The Madville Times blog mentioned a new pipeline apparently snaking past Winner, SD being planned by the same outfit building the east river South Dakota pipeline. And noted I should be checking on this.

NWLINK to Madville Times on Pipeline

Skimming through the local rag today, I notice in the city council news..not front page news...that some surveyors have gotten permission apparently to poke around the Winner City dumpsite or near it. Text as I typed it follows..there may be errors.

Trans Canada pipeline
Dick Kirsch of the city building department, told the council Universal Field services, Inc., representing TransCanada Pipeline is conducting studies for the proposed pipeline to be constructed from Hardisty, Alberta, Canada to the Texas gulf coast. In order to evaluate the project, the company will be doing some soil testing on land owned by the city near the land fill. The mayor was authorized to sign an agreement with Universal to do the testing. The company plans to do soil analysis, civil, archaeological and other environmental surveys along the proposed route.

The survey party will consist of two to five persons along with survey equipment.

TransCanada Corp is planning a second oil pipeline entering South Dakota at the northwest corner and exiting the state at the southern border.

The proposed pipeline would be larger than the one planned for eastern South Dakota.

I don't know if this story means they have not talked to anybody else around here or if it just means that contact with the city gets into the paper no matter what it might concern and the paper seldom ever covers news more than a mile from the city center...or what. Anyway, it is there and that is all I have heard or read so far about the issue..or lack thereof.

I don't think the problem for this pipeline across SD starts until it gets into the shallow sandy aquifers south of Winner. The city landfill or dump was probably selected for the clay and shale in the area which might be less permeable than the sand south of town. Somehow, this seems a bit like the drunkard's search where the drunk searches under the street light rather than in the dark where he actually lost his keys.

I'm sure there may or may not be more news on this. How's that for wishy-washy. I have been watching to much political spin lately.

**Stay tuned even if you can keep your mind out of the gutter or the city dumps--- Doug Wiken

Comments

[CA Heidelberger]

Thanks for the info, Doug! Just watch out -- Dennis Duncan may start leaving anonymous comments questioning your journalistic integrity. ;-)