article_snippet: Fears the notorious FLDS cult is planning to expand have been sparked after the brother of Seth Jeffs applied to increase the water supply to the group's South Dakota compound.
article_snippet: Seth Jeffs wants to double the amount of water it can draw from an aquifer in the 140-acre compound about 30 miles from Mount Rushmore.
article_snippet: Seth Jeffs told state authorities that members of the United Order of South Dakota, a trust run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) need more water for gardens, orchards and herds of animals.
article_snippet: Seth Jeffspictured left), the brother of imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs has applied to double the water available to the group's South Dakota compound, sparking fears of an influx of members there .
article_snippet: Seth Jeffs declined to comment to The Associated Press, but told a local newspaper in January the FLDS compound that has nearly 50,000 square feet of residential space is 'not growing right now' and members 'just need more water.'
article_snippet: Seth Jeffs, who originally sought to triple the amount of water the South Dakota ranch could draw, recently told South Dakota Seth Jeffs, who originally sought to triple the amount of water the South Dakota ranch could draw was scaling back Seth Jeffs, who originally sought to triple the amount of water the South Dakota ranch could draw request to relieve the 'fears and concerns' of the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service.
article_snippet: William Hansen, chief of the Water Rights Branch of the NPS, said South Dakota main concern is the effect an additional well, without stricter limitations on usage, could have on Wind Cave National Park, since the FLDS draws from the same aquifer that has been forming the cave for millennia.
highlights_snippet: Seth Jeffs wants to double the water available in compound near Pringle .
  