North Central Montana Regional Water System Service to North Havre

The North Central Montana Regional Water System is a water system that will transport potable water from Lake Elwell (Tiber Reservoir). The system will operate in 8 arid North Central Montana counties including Hill, Chouteau, Liberty, Cascade, Tool, Pondera and Glacier. Lakeside Excavation completed the Segment E6-A, which was the first competitive bid non-core line to be completed in the project. It was the first because North Havre Water District was under a boil order from the Montana Department of Environmental Quality due to water quality issues. The project was 120,000 liner feet of pipe installation including numerous river and road bores and was a challenge. Our biggest challenge was the existing tie in at the City of Havre Water Treatment Plant. Poor soils, high ground water and existing utilities were a few of the obstacles. Once out of the Milk River valley, high production rates were achieved. This project was started in the fall and work went through mid-January and was finished up in the spring. Because of this project the North Havre users have enough water for drinking and some even use the water for farm spraying operations.