Oil boom brings growing pains to North Dakota town

Rock Center’s report on the jobs boom in North Dakota sparked more than a thousand comments from viewers with some declaring that they were heading to Williston to find work and some Williston locals saying that the jobs boom is good news for the economy, but there are growing pains.

North Dakota’s oil boom has turned the town of Williston into a kind of mecca for job seekers, but with the surge of newcomers and traffic come potholes and ruts in the city’s roads, a severe housing crunch and even stresses on the city’s sewage system. Click on the link below to view video documented by Harry Smith on Rock Center.

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