Proposed pipeline crosses Heart of Iowa Trail

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Gavin Aronsen
Mon July 06 2015
Posted Jul 6, 2015
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A dozen foes of Texas-based Dakota Access LLC’s plans to build a pipeline across Iowa gathered Thursday evening in the Ames Public Library’s Danfoss Room to discuss the project, which the company estimates will cost $3.8 billion and transport up to 570,000 barrels of crude oil each day from North Dakota to a hub in Illinois.

The pipeline’s proposed route cuts across more than 340 miles of 18 Iowa counties, including all of the state’s major watersheds and about 14 miles across Story County.

As initially submitted, the proposed route crossed a portion of the Story County-owned Heart of Iowa Nature Trail between Huxley and Cambridge, four ISU-owned farms south of Ames and ISU’s Allee Memorial Demonstration Farm in Buena Vista County, in addition to many private properties in rural Iowa.

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