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We have two different water treatment plants here.

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We really try to be cost efficient with our chemical.

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That's really critical to keep our costs as efficient as we can be and try to keep the rates as reasonable as we can.

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And we're monitoring the costs daily, each chemical and each treatment plant, which is more favorable to treat.

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The other thing, we do have two sources of water, the Red River and the Cheyenne River.

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So whichever is most suitable to treat from a cost and quality, that's what we choose to do.

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So we have two treatment plants, an older line softening plant that can produce roughly 30 million gallons per day.

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A newer membrane plant that can produce 15 million gallons per day.

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A typical average usage in the wintertime in the city of Fargo is right around 14 or 15 million gallons per day.

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And in the summer, it almost doubles.

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We've seen peak flows up to 32, 33 million gallons per day.

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So attributed to that is a lot of lawn watering.

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It really increases or doubles the demand on the treatment plant in the summertime.

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Some of the things you might not think about that impacts the water in the city of Fargo.

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If there is a heavy rain, there is dams and reservoirs in the state.

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The snow melt, the spring flooding, that brings a lot of turbidity or cloudiness of the water.

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And then with seasons, with the river freezing over, we can run into frazzle ice.

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We have a lot of things that we have to watch out for.

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One thing really important to us is drought supply, Red River Valley Water Supply Project.

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We recently completed a pumping station that will lift water out of the Cheyenne River

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and it'll run by open channel all the way to water treatment plant.

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In Fargo, we have to have the plant operated 24-7 because sometimes we're making 20, 30, 40 changes a day

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because the river in Fargo can change really fast and we really strive to provide consistent water quality.

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We have online instrumentations and operators constantly looking at water quality trends,

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the flows that are going out of the plant, the chemicals that we're using.

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Our river is very challenging and we do have to make a lot of changes throughout the day.

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So in the city of Fargo, we do have 11 water towers and we have a computer model of the entire water system

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which has all of the pipes, all the water towers, our ground storage reservoir in it.

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In a typical water tower, when you design them, you can think of it as having a couple different sections in the water tower.

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One of the sections is used for fire protection.

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If there's a fire in town, there's water that's readily available to the hydrants in the city.

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There's another section in the water tower that's for equalization storage.

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So like in the morning when everybody's using the water, there's a really big demand on the water system.

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And then there's one other section in the water tower that's kind of reserve or emergency storage also.

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One of the cool things about working in Fargo is we work with several other departments.

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We work, I think, very well as a team together in getting projects done, so it's really important.

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So we deliver really good projects for our system.

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Thank you.