Alston & Bird was proud to represent Lewis & Clark Regional Water System, an organization dedicated to constructing and operating a first-of-its-kind tristate drinking-water system, in securing over $26.8 million in funding from the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee for the 2025 fiscal year. The project, which has received a long history of bipartisan support and will be complete in 2028, will deliver 45 million gallons of safe drinking water per day to over 350,000 people in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. The effort was recently featured in this video shared by President Biden on the impact of the work.
Representing Lewis & Clark was an Alston & Bird team led by partner Jane Lucas and policy advisor Evan Collier (Health Care Legislative & Public Policy).