Environmental Health & Engineering Director Billy Hix said in Delaware County the program is working on a waterline extension for Rural Water Dist.
11, constructing a water treatment plan in the southern part of the county and working on a water loss project near Kenwood.
Southern Delaware County Regional WTP Hix said this project is in the Flint Ridge community and consists of a new 2 million gallon per day water treatment plant, two water storage tanks, three pump stations and 3.6 miles of 12-inch waterline.
He said the plant and other infrastructure would provide water to Flint Ridge, West Siloam Springs, Colcord, Kansas and the county’s RWD 11, serving approximately 2,500 homes with about 1,100 being Cherokee households.
“All of the communities served by this project had various issues with water quality or quantity.
We worked with them to prepare a feasibility study to see if a regional water treatment plant to serve them would work,” Hix said.
When completed the authority will provide water to the communities.
“The Kenwood Water District had problems with high amounts of water loss.
Muskogee County RWD 7 waterline extension Hix said about 2 miles east of Fort Gibson and 1.5 north of Two Mile Road homes had issues with water quality and quantity that existing wells produced, so approximately 4,300 linear feet of waterline and a booster pump station are being added.
The project is receiving $93,500 from IHS and $13,500 from CN and is expected to be done in July after about four months of construction.