We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
The final inspection tour of the upgrade at the Chinook Water Treatment took place last week. (l-r) Jeff Ashley, chief engineer, Russ Kraenzel, superintendent for the contractor, Brian Beck, construction project manager and Chinook Mayor Keith Hanson, inspect a control panel in the raw water pump house where raw water from the Milk River first enters for processing.
Chinook's water treatment plant upgrade is nearing completion. Construction on the $6.7 million project began in the early spring of last year. Last week representatives from the engineering firm that did the design work, the company that did the construction, USDA officials, a Bear Paw Development grant writer and manager and Chinook officials and water treatment plant employees made the tour to check the status of the remaining punch list. A crew was still putting up final fencing while the tour was being conducted.
Jeff Ashley, Senior Water Engineer for Morrison Maierle, explained before th...
