WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:15.000 We have two different water treatment plants here. 00:15.000 --> 00:18.000 We really try to be cost efficient with our chemical. 00:18.000 --> 00:25.000 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. 00:25.000 --> 00:32.000 And we're monitoring the costs daily, each chemical and each treatment plant, which is more favorable to treat. 00:32.000 --> 00:37.000 The other thing, we do have two sources of water, the Red River and the Cheyenne River. 00:37.000 --> 00:44.000 So whichever is most suitable to treat from a cost and quality, that's what we choose to do. 00:44.000 --> 00:51.000 So we have two treatment plants, an older line softening plant that can produce roughly 30 million gallons per day. 00:51.000 --> 00:55.000 A newer membrane plant that can produce 15 million gallons per day. 00:55.000 --> 01:02.000 A typical average usage in the wintertime in the city of Fargo is right around 14 or 15 million gallons per day. 01:02.000 --> 01:04.000 And in the summer, it almost doubles. 01:04.000 --> 01:09.000 We've seen peak flows up to 32, 33 million gallons per day. 01:09.000 --> 01:12.000 So attributed to that is a lot of lawn watering. 01:12.000 --> 01:16.000 It really increases or doubles the demand on the treatment plant in the summertime. 01:17.000 --> 01:20.000 Some of the things you might not think about that impacts the water in the city of Fargo. 01:20.000 --> 01:25.000 If there is a heavy rain, there is dams and reservoirs in the state. 01:25.000 --> 01:30.000 The snow melt, the spring flooding, that brings a lot of turbidity or cloudiness of the water. 01:30.000 --> 01:35.000 And then with seasons, with the river freezing over, we can run into frazzle ice. 01:35.000 --> 01:38.000 We have a lot of things that we have to watch out for. 01:38.000 --> 01:44.000 One thing really important to us is drought supply, Red River Valley Water Supply Project. 01:44.000 --> 01:50.000 We recently completed a pumping station that will lift water out of the Cheyenne River 01:50.000 --> 01:56.000 and it'll run by open channel all the way to water treatment plant. 01:56.000 --> 02:04.000 In Fargo, we have to have the plant operated 24-7 because sometimes we're making 20, 30, 40 changes a day 02:04.000 --> 02:11.000 because the river in Fargo can change really fast and we really strive to provide consistent water quality. 02:11.000 --> 02:16.000 We have online instrumentations and operators constantly looking at water quality trends, 02:16.000 --> 02:20.000 the flows that are going out of the plant, the chemicals that we're using. 02:20.000 --> 02:25.000 Our river is very challenging and we do have to make a lot of changes throughout the day. 02:25.000 --> 02:32.000 So in the city of Fargo, we do have 11 water towers and we have a computer model of the entire water system 02:32.000 --> 02:38.000 which has all of the pipes, all the water towers, our ground storage reservoir in it. 02:38.000 --> 02:45.000 In a typical water tower, when you design them, you can think of it as having a couple different sections in the water tower. 02:45.000 --> 02:48.000 One of the sections is used for fire protection. 02:48.000 --> 02:53.000 If there's a fire in town, there's water that's readily available to the hydrants in the city. 02:53.000 --> 02:57.000 There's another section in the water tower that's for equalization storage. 02:57.000 --> 03:02.000 So like in the morning when everybody's using the water, there's a really big demand on the water system. 03:02.000 --> 03:08.000 And then there's one other section in the water tower that's kind of reserve or emergency storage also. 03:09.000 --> 03:16.000 One of the cool things about working in Fargo is we work with several other departments. 03:16.000 --> 03:22.000 We work, I think, very well as a team together in getting projects done, so it's really important. 03:22.000 --> 03:26.000 So we deliver really good projects for our system. 03:32.000 --> 03:35.000 Thank you.