Sewer Repairs Busy In Wolf Point

Some Wolf Point residents have needed to drive a different route to their homes in the last couple of weeks, but the work is needed to improve for the future of the community’s sewer system.

“We haven’t had major construction for many years,” Wolf Point Mayor Chris Dschaak said of the road work. “But it’s necessary for the upgrades that we’re doing.”

Dschaak is hopeful that about 50 percent, mainly on the southside, on the city’s sewer project is completed by the end of this summer.

“It’s going to go on into the summer,” Dschaak said. “There’s a lot of upgrades.”

At the end of phase three of the sewer project, about $15 million of updates would be done. The great majority of the funding is from state or federal sources. The city’s only loan is $3.5 million from rural development.

The mayor said there’s not enough funding to complete everything and some projects might be put out for bid.

Some of the updates are being done with an open cut while others are being conducted through a cured-in-place pipe process.

The project will include working at a railroad crossing on Second Avenue South.

“It’s a giant upgrade,” Dschaak explained.

Dschaak said the long-term goal is to repair or replace the entire city-maintained sewer system.