Is Devils Lake’s Water Safe?

With the news from Spirit Lake cautioning residents about drinking water, a number of people have inquired about the safety of Devils Lake’s drinking water supply. So the Journal contacted Mike Grafsgaard from the City of Devils Lake to ask some of those questions.

Grafsgaard stated that he had read some of the posts on social media and wanted to reassure residents of Devils Lake that the city’s drinking water was not in jeopardy and is safe to use and drink. The aquifer that the Spirit Lake Nation uses is the Warwick aquifer and the aquifer that the city of Devils Lake uses is the SpiritWood Aquifer. They are two different aquifers with wells located miles apart from each other.

Although Devils Lake’s water used to come from the Warwick aquifer since the early 1960s, a number of years a