What is NCRWC II?
The North Central Rural Water Consortium II (NCRWC) was formed under a Joint Powers Agreement between Central Plains Water District and North Prairie Rural Water District. The intent is to provide a funding mechanism and cooperative body to more efficiently serve the most users possible, while allowing each system to remain independent. The approach is to utilize existing infrastructure while strengthening or supplementing it to serve new users in existing and new areas. NCRWC is currently developing several small projects-mostly by using USDA-Rural Development loan funding.
CENTRAL PLAINS WATER DISTRICT
The Central Plains Water District (CPWD) area is comprised of most of Wells County, the lower quarter of Benson County and most of the western half of Eddy County. CPWD serves approximately 740 customers, in addition to the communities of Fessenden, Sykeston, and Martin.
CPWD has seven wells that are located within one mile of the treatment plant, which is located seven miles west of Fessenden. The water plant produces 450 gallons per minute and is an iron-manganese pressure system. The pressure vessels that treat the water have a green sand filtration system made up of three filter systems and one settlement basin vessel.
The distribution system is comprised of 700 miles of various size pipelines. There are five booster stations within the system that store 80,000 gallons at the clear well. Additional storage is available at three of the booster stations, storing 35,000 gallons each and two other stations that store 10,000 gallons each.
NORTH PRAIRIE RURAL WATER DISTRICT
North Prairie Rural Water District (NPRWD) currently serves approximately 2,000 users expanding out of Minot to serve several small towns including Douglas, Surrey, Max, and Des Lacs as well as two air force command facilities and many rural users in Ward, McHenry, and McLean Counties. Three systems or phases comprise NPRWD. Systems I and II are served by purchasing water from the city of Minot. System III is served from NPRWD’s new water treatment plant located near Voltaire. This state of the art treatment plant has the capacity to treat 900 gallons per minute and is an iron-manganese pressure system with nano filtration at the end.
NPRWD's distribution system is comprised of 900 miles of various size pipelines. There are two inline booster stations within the system and 14 reservoirs with storage capacity ranging from 18,000 gallons to a large standpipe water tower with the capacity to store 180,000 gallons.