RSID-21 meeting set for Tuesday

A meeting about the funding of RSID 21 will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Great Northern Community Center.

Hill County Commissioner Mark Peterson said the purpose of the meeting is primarily to discuss the funding of the district including a Community Development Block Grant the county received last year to upgrade the wastewater system in the RSID which is located in North Havre.

“We’re just trying to figure out how to fund it,” Peterson said.

He also said they will be discussing the Treasure State Endowment Program grant the commission applied for last year but noted that it’s unlikely that they will know if they got it until Montana Legislature closes.

Last year, the commission had discussed the need to improve the lift station in the district, which is more than 50 years old — most of the machinery and equipments’ life expectancy is half of that.

The commission has spent a great deal of time in the past years looking for ways to fund upgrades to lift stations in North Havre and have had successes getting some of them up to date.

Lift Station 21 is not in danger of causing environmental or health risks at the moment, but the commission wanted to get ahead of what would eventually be a problem.

Peterson said he and his fellow commissioners and Matt Mudd of Great West Engineering and Susan Brurud of Bear Paw Development Corp will be in attendance at the meeting.