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Box Elder updates council on PFAS clean-water line; completion expected Nov. 2025
Summary
Public Works Director Bruce Martin told the Box Elder City Council the regional clean-water line to address PFAS in private wells is under construction, with Rapid City supplying free water to affected properties for 20 years and Box Elder to operate and maintain infrastructure in its service area; completion is expected by Nov. 2025.
Box Elder officials on Feb. 4 updated the City Council on construction of a regional clean-water line designed to deliver PFAS-free water to properties near Ellsworth Air Force Base.
"This project is expected to be completed by November 2025," Bruce Martin, Box Elder public works director, told the council, describing intergovernmental agreements that will link Rapid City, Box Elder and Ellsworth to provide and operate the new line.
Martin said PFAS contamination was first detected in 2017 in some private wells south of Ellsworth and that…
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