Williston tackles its biggest project, Page 3.
Downtown Williston getting updated look, Page 5.
No time for MWEC to rest on its laurels, Page 8.
Minot Daily News
SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2015
Oil & Gas Impact
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Workers with contractor Rice Lake Construction Group pour concrete for a clarifier at the wastewater treatment facility under construction in Watford City March 11.
Keeping up with growth Watford City builds wastewater plant By JILL SCHRAMM Staff Writer jschramm @minotdailynews.com WATFORD CITY – Watford City has been scrambling to develop infrastructure to keep pace with its r a p i d growth. That’s especially been the case when it Smith comes to handling the volume of wastewater being generated in a community that has grown from Kelley about 1,500 residents before the oil boom to an estimated 6,000 to 7,000 people receiving city services today. The community is constructing an $18 million wastewater treatment facility. That construction cost doesn’t include about $3 million in engineering and other “soft” costs. Nor does it include another estimated $12 million for a second phase of construction that
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Workers with Rice Lake Construction Group, at left, work on the clarifier for a wastewater treatment facility in Watford City. In the background is the facility’s oxidation ditch that is under construction and some of the new housing that has been built in the city recently. Watford City’s existing meeting the needs of the works superintendent. An aerobic bacterial activity and will be needed once the initial plant is completed in lagoon system doesn’t have population, said Justin aeration pond system has See GROW — Page 11 the capacity to continue Smith, the city’s public been added to increase the December.