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Sioux Falls offers a strong infrastructure of telecommunications services. As a regional hub for medical, industry, and retail services, the community is wired with multiple carriers for voice and data transport. The providers offer everything from the traditional residential services to optical OCX capacity with local and regional SONET protection. For more information contact the providers listed.
Local Telecommunications
Midcontinent Communications
1-800-888-1300
www.midcocomm.com
Knology
1-877-633-4567
www.knology.com
Sioux Valley Wireless
1-800-616-7888
www.svwireless.com
SDN Communications
1-800-247-1442
www.sdncommunications.com
CenturyLink
1-800-603-6000
www.centurylink.com
Long Distance Telecommunications
Long distance network service is provided by a number of companies.
Point of Presence
AT&T, Knology, Midcontinent Comunications, CenturyLink, SDN Communications, Sprint and Verizon Business all maintain Points of Presence in the community.
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| Natural Gas |
MidAmerican Energy
MidAmerican Energy Company provides natural gas service in Sioux Falls. The company serves more than two dozen South Dakota communities in Minnehaha, McCook, Lincoln, Turner, Moody, Lake, Yankton, Clay and Union counties. MidAmerican provides electric service to 725,000 customers and natural gas service to 707,000 customers in Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska and South Dakota. MidAmerican's economic development group assists businesses with expansion plans and serves as a resource for local business retention and recruitment efforts. Contact them by email at economicadvantage@midamerican.com or visit www.midamericanenergy.com or www.twitter.com/EconAdvantage. |
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| Electricity |
Xcel Energy
Xcel Energy provides electricity to over 90 percent of the electrical customers in Sioux Falls — approximately 70,000 residential and commercial clients. Xcel also serves customers in 35 rural communities in eastern South Dakota, including a number in Minnehaha and Lincoln counties. The company owns and operates three combustion turbine-generating unites at the Angus C. Anson plant site. Located between Sioux Falls and Brandon, the plant utilizes natural gas and is capable of providing over 400 megawatts of power, and is generally used for peaking purposes on hot summer days. Xcel Energy offers a range of rate options, including interruptible rates that can provide industrial customers with significant rate savings.
Xcel Energy offers a range of rate options, including interruptible rates that can provide industrial customers with significant rate savings. For more information, visit www.xcelenergy.com or call 1-800-481-4700.
Sioux Valley Energy
Sioux Valley Energy provides electricity and a wide range of related services, to customers in Minnehaha, Brookings, Lake, Moody and eastern Kingsbury counties in South Dakota as well as counties in Minnesota. Service is provided in the communities of Brandon, Hartford, Colton, Corson, Humboldt, Crooks, Lyons and Valley Springs, as well as portions of Sioux Falls. Sioux Valley Energy has more than 5,600 miles of distribution line serving nearly 21,000 residential, commercial and industrial accounts. Besides basic central station electric services, Sioux Valley Energy offers electrical wiring and repair, energy use advice and assistance programs, reduced rate and rebate programs for using electricity for space heating, controlled-use air-conditioning and water heating, and residential/commercial energy conservation assistance. Sioux Valley Energy's subsidiary, Sioux Valley Wireless, provides high speed Internet to customers in the region. For information call 1-800-234-1960 or visit www.siouxvalleyenergy.com.
Southeastern Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Southeastern Electric Cooperative provides electrical services to consumer-members who live in the southern city limits of Sioux Falls, Lincoln, McCook, Turner and Hutchinson Counties, and parts of Clay, Minnehaha and Union Counties. The locally-owned Coop provides service to residential, commercial and industrial customers on a non-profit basis. The Coop serves about 15,000 meters and is one of the fastest-growing coops in the state. The Coop also offers incentive programs for ground source heat pumps, energy efficiency programs, off-peak heating, water heating, and all-electric heat for homes and businesses out of its new Sioux Falls Office located south on 1-29 exit#68 east. |
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| Water / Sewer |
Water
Three sources of water are currently available to the City of Sioux Falls, Big Sioux Aquifer, Big Sioux River, Middle Skunk Creek Aquifer. Source water, both groundwater and surface water, are treated at the Water Purification Plant. Treated drinking water is then pumped and stored in a combination of ground level and elevated storage facilities. A total of 24 million gallons of water can be stored, 5 million gallons in four elevated tanks, 14 million gallons in four ground level concrete reservoirs and 5 million gallons in a steel ground level storage reservoir.
Construction is currently underway on the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System that will supply treated water from the Missouri River through 337 miles of pipeline to member communities and rural water systems, including Sioux Falls, with a projected water delivery date of April 2012.
Treatment capacity at the Water Purification Plant increased from 54 million gallons per day to 72 million gallons with a recently completed
expansion project.
Residents in rural communities throughout Minnehaha and Lincoln Counties are served by local municipalities, rural water systems or individual water sources. For information on rates in Minnehaha County contact the Minnehaha Community Water Corp. at (605) 428-3374. For information on Lincoln County rates, contact North Lincoln County Rural Water System at (605) 767-2966, South Lincoln Rural Water at (605) 372-4211, or the local municipality.
Water Sources |
| Big Sioux Aquifer |
87% |
| Big Sioux River |
10% |
| Middle Skunk Creek Aquifer |
3% |
Wastewater Treatment
The Sioux Falls Department of Water Reclamation oversees wastewater collection and treatment for the City. The sanitary sewer system consists of 813 miles of sewer pipe and 27 lift stations within the city.
Residential and commercial flow is 57.4 percent of the flow contribution to the collection and treatment system. High strength and industrial flow contributes approximately 5.2 percent of the total flow. The Water Reclamation Division provides collection and treatment services for two sanitary districts and two municipalities outside of the City of Sioux Falls. The districts and municipalities contribute 3.4 percent of the total flow to the system.
The Division also provides treatment for final discharge to the Big Sioux River according to the conditions of the City’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit. The City currently has primary, secondary and tertiary treatment facilities. The state-of-the-art wastewater treatment facility has an average flow capacity of 21 million gallons per day and can handle a peak flow of up to 42 million gallons per day. Average daily flows in 2010 were over 18.55 million gallons per day.
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| Recycling / Sanitary Landfill / Green Project |
Sioux Falls Regional Landfill: The SFRSL, in operation since 1979, is the largest landfill in the state of South Dakota and is operated under the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources. It is located approximately 7.5 miles west of Sioux Falls and has a service area covering five counties. The SFRSL has a total permitted area of 469 acres, and owns another 142.5 acres.
Sioux Falls, in partnership with POET Biorefining, have taken "green" to a new level with the completion of a landfill gas pipeline earlier this year. The 11-mile, low-pressure pipeline provides methane gas to help power daily operations at a 105 million gallon per year POET ethanol plant.
Green Project: www.siouxfallsgreenproject.com |
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