Office Hours: M - F 8am - 5pm
253 Bierney Creek Rd., Lakeside MT 59922
(P)406-844-3881 (F)406-844-3996
Email: info@lcwsd.net
Lakeside County Water and Sewer District:Sewer History:
In December of 1988, The Lakeside County Sewer was placed into operation to serve the sewage disposal needs of the Town of Lakeside and surrounding areas residents. The primary objective of developing the System was to reduce public health hazard and nutrient loading into Flathead Lake. The LCWSD operates and maintains a Wastewater Collection System for the Community of Lakeside; several lift stations, an aerated-lagoon treatment facility, a land application facility, and a seven mile long force transmission main between Lakeside and the Treatment Site. The majority of the system was constructed in 1988. The District also provides treatment and land application of wastewater from the Somers Collection System.
Conveyance Line (Transmission Main) - All wastewater from the Lakeside Collection System, the Somers Collection System, and intermediate smaller collection systems is transported to the Treatment Site through the District’s existing conveyance line. The line consists of four lift stations connected by a 10- inch Polyethylene force main and sections of 12-inch PVC gravity mainline. The Force Main begins at the north end of Lakeside at Lift Station #5, and extends along Hwy. 93 around the northwest corner of Flathead Lake, through the Town of Somers, and on to the Wastewater Treatment Facility. The total length of the conveyance line is approximately 36,000 feet (6.8 miles), including approximately 33,200 feet of 10-inch Force Main and 2,800 feet of 12-inch Gravity Main.
Lift Stations - The original Lakeside Collection System included 13 Lift Stations. Of those, five (LiftStations #1-5) are located along the Conveyance Line, and the remaining eight (#’s 6-13) in low lying portions of the Collection System, predominantly along the lakeshore. Since the original construction of the System in 1988, LS #1A was added in Somers and several more lift stations serving smaller developments along the Conveyance Line have been added to the System. These Lift Stations are needed to pump wastewater from those collection systems into the District’s Conveyance Line. Included are Lift Stations at the State Fish Hatchery, Cherry Hills, Best View Estates, White Oak Lodge, Southside Town Homes, Marco Bay, and the Somers Bay Condominiums
Treatment Facility - The existing Treatment Facility is located approximately one mile north of Hwy. 82, and one mile east of Hwy. 93. The Facility consists of two 2.5 acre aerated treatment lagoons and two larger storage ponds for winter-time storage of treated effluent. Disposal of the effluent is accomplished through a slow rate land application (irrigation) system on a 160 acre field located to the north and west of the lagoons.
Technical Advances - We are always striving for better ways to protect you and our environment from wastewater disposal. In 2007, we installed a new computer based internet monitoring system. What used to be a shot-in-the-dark and many man hours to monitor, our Operators can now monitor the pumps at our lift stations from their home if need be, many times avoiding a problem in the early stages before it’s too late. In the fall of 2008, we installed a computerized maintenance program to document all of our assets, along with creating a schedule for maintaining the maintenance on those assets. We will be finishing, in the summer of 2010, a GIS map of our District, showing all of our wastewater and water utilities and where they are in the ground. All of our paper drawings in one map, easy to access and properly recorded for years to come.