{"id":26766,"date":"2024-07-03T19:31:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T19:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-water-breaks-ground-for-water-treatment-plant-expansion\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:45:14","slug":"montezuma-water-breaks-ground-for-water-treatment-plant-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-water-breaks-ground-for-water-treatment-plant-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma Water breaks ground for water treatment plant expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Montezuma Water\u2019s groundbreaking for its water plant extension with plant manager Steve Bowman and the Montezuma Water board members. Left to Right: Tad Willbanks, Wayne Johnson, Mike Rosso, Cindy Green, Bowman, Wes Wilson, Glen Fish, Wanda Graves, Rusty Hamilton and Ted Holgate. (Steve Bowman\/Courtesy Photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The expansion of the plant will allow Montezuma Water to plan for future growth<\/div>\n

In mid-June, Montezuma Water Co. broke ground for its water treatment plant extension on its property on Road T in Dolores. The expansion will increase the plant\u2019s water capacity from 4 million gallons per day to 6 million per day.<\/p>\n

The expansion will be attached to the existing water plant in Dolores.<\/p>\n

On June 14, the consulting agency Plummer congratulated Montezuma Water on the groundbreaking on Facebook.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to be part of this transformative project, which includes constructing a new raw water pump station\/wet well, building a cutting edge treatment plant and installing new, high-efficiency pumps,\u201d the Facebook post said.<\/p>\n

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Montezuma Water Co. operators and the engineers from Plummer celebrated the groundbreaking. Left to right: operator Travis Willbanks, engineer Kelly Fearney, engineer Julian Piaz, manager Steve Bowman, engineer Travis Ramos and former operators Ron Roggenback and Conrad Hover. Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The project started in 2019, and the groundbreaking is seen as the first major step in an outcome that has been a long time coming for the plant and those who work there.<\/p>\n

Montezuma Water Manager Steve Bowman told The<\/em> Journal<\/em> that the project is expected to last 18 months, ending in November 2025.<\/p>\n

The project allows the plant to anticipate future growth without causing water restrictions to those who already benefit from Montezuma Water\u2019s service.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s making it possible for us to continue to serve our existing members without any watering restrictions at all, and then it allows for growth for new people moving into the area,\u201d Bowman said.<\/p>\n

The plant has been seeing steady growth each year, making the expansion a necessary endeavor to keep up with the increase of members.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been seeing pretty steady growth every year with 40 to 60 new members each year,\u201d Bowman said.<\/p>\n

While the contractor working on the project isn\u2019t local to the Montezuma County area, Bowman said they are using local contractors wherever they can.<\/p>\n

Montezuma Water is a member-owned, not-for-profit, water utility company that provides drinking water to members.<\/p>\n

There are 21 employees who work for Montezuma Water.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody that has a tap owns a piece of the company, and they\u2019re represented by a nine-member board. We provide drinking water for the rural areas in Montezuma, parts of Dolores and parts of San Miguel County,\u201d Bowman finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Montezuma Water\u2019s groundbreaking for its water plant extension with plant manager Steve Bowman and the Montezuma Water board members. Left to Right: Tad Willbanks, Wayne Johnson, Mike Rosso, Cindy Green, Bowman, Wes Wilson, Glen Fish, Wanda Graves, Rusty Hamilton and Ted Holgate. (Steve Bowman\/Courtesy Photo) The expansion of the plant will allow Montezuma Water to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,44,837,28,60,29,1561],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-26766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-dolores","tag-dolores-county","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter","tag-san-miguel-county"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79470,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26766\/revisions\/79470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26766"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=26766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}