2015 Upgrades Underway For Beaver Water District
by January 19, 2015 12:00 am 86 views
Beaver Water District plans to spend up to $664,000 this year maintaining the sprawling system of pumps and pipes that supplies ready-to-drink water to Bentonville, Rogers, Springdale and Fayetteville.
District crews have already installed a 36-inch, magnetic flow meter, which measures the flow of water through a pipe, for the city of Rogers, and repaired chlorine lines at intake silos. Improvements planned for later this year include cutting dead trees near pipelines and intakes, replacing a 36-inch backwash mag meter, replacing a 42-inch influent mag meter and retrofitting dated filter consoles.
The district will also continue to work on a multi-year project to replace the plant’s Distributive Control System, which among other things, governs the district’s chemical feeders.
Most of the work will be done by district crews.
“We’ve got a great staff out here that is up to the challenge,” plant manager Stacy Cheevers said.
The dam that created Beaver Reservoir and the first water treatment plant were completed in the mid-1960s. The four customer cities buy water from the district at a wholesale rate of $1.26 per thousand gallons and resell it to their customers.