MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Lewis & Clark makes last South Dakota connection

After joining regional water system at conception more than three decades ago, regional water turned on for city of Madison

President George H.W. Bush was entering his second year in office. Phil Collins’ “Another Day in Paradise” dominated radio airwaves. And a grand plan was being hatched to pump Missouri River water to hundreds of thousands of South Dakotans for the first time ever.

Now, more than three decades after communities and water districts across the Iowa, Minneso…