# @dmregister on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C5CXsR_tRNJ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/13094880-dmregister-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-03-28T00:00:29.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Des Moines Register (@DMRegister) — https://gondola.cc/DMRegister

## Caption

To understand the latest obstacle blocking a more than two-decade effort to bring more water supply to a part of the state that really needs it, drive about 6 miles northwest of this south Iowa town and have a look.

Perched in the tall grass on the side of a gravel road near a pile of junk, dead trees and discarded tires are three structures: a weatherworn, early 20th century farmhouse with holes in its floor, ceiling and roof; an abandoned shed; and an equally aged and battered red wooden chicken coop.

Area leaders learned at the end of February that the historic nature of that old farmstead, a common scene of rural decay in the Midwest, could be the next obstacle between them and roughly $60 million in federal funding needed to begin work on a new reservoir in the South West Creek watershed.

The huge project, local officials say, could eventually serve as many as 30,000 people in drought-ridden south-central Iowa and northern Missouri. But the list of problems that have confronted the effort, most tying back to Iowa state officials, has run so long that some local leaders don’t think it’s a coincidence.

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