Part of pipeline to be replaced under Lake Sakakawea

The company that runs the Great Plains Synfuels Plant is planning to replace part of a carbon dioxide pipeline under Lake Sakakawea The lake levels have gotten low enough that company officials worry a boat propeller could hit the pipeline In places there s less than ten feet of water covering the steel pipe Dakota Gas plans to build a new stretch of pipeline across the lake and bury it six feet deep Then the existing pipeline would be taken out Most of it is on top of the lake bed Dakota Gas spokesman Daryl Hill says the company wants to start the project in July It should be finished by October It will cost 10 5 million The pipeline sends carbon dioxide from the Great Plains plant into southern Saskatchewan