Utilities Administration
The Utilities Division coordinates internal and external business for all six Utilities
Programs.
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- Performs billing and collection for the Utility Services provided for the Tribe
- Coordinates the application process for customers desiring utility services
- Processes all purchase orders, requisitions, check requests, invoices for the 5 Utilities Programs.
- Oversees Utilities accounts payables
- Supports field personnel in the other five Utilities Programs
- Coordinates with Tribal Finance on internal and external business transactions.
- Provides personnel and financial management for Utilities Programs
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Water Program
The Water Treatment Plant is located three miles south of Bayfield at 981 County Road 518.
The Water Programs performs the following services: |
- Provides safe drinking water for Tribal and non-Tribal customers
- Operates the four million gallon per day Water Treatment Plant and the associated water distribution system
- Maintains the two coin-operated Water Delivery Stations and the Commercial Water Truck Water Station located on HWY 172 south of Ignacio
- Monitors and provides water quality reports to the Environmental protection Agency as required
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Hauled Water Program
The Hauled Water Program hauls water twice per week to approximately 60 Tribal members with cisterns. This Program also makes special water deliveries for the Tribal Youth Camp, Sundance dust control, and for fire suppression. |
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Natural Gas Program
The Natural Gas Program delivers gas to Tribal, non-Tribal residential customers and commercial businesses in the Pine River Corridor. |
- The Tribe constructed a new gas delivery system in 1991.
- The system begins at the north end at the Rainbow Meadows Subdivision and pans south to Cedar Point.
- The Gas Program purchases processed gas from Red Willow Production Company. The delivery point to the Gas Program is at a facility known as the Town Border Station”. This facility can be seen just after you cross the Highway 151 Bridge if you look to the north.
The Gas Program is responsible for the following:
- Odorizing the gas and monitoring the gas volumes passing through the delivery system
- For overseeing or performing all new taps or line extensions
- For providing oversight on any new line extensions in the system
- Repairing any leaks in the system
- Providing all reports required by the Department of Transportation
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Wastewater Program
The treatment plant is located just south of the Town of Ignacio after crossing Rock Creek on State Hwy 172.
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- The wastewater system consists of an 800,000 gallon per day treatment plant and the collection system.
- The treatment plant was constructed in 1999.
- The type of treatment system at the plant is referred to as activated sludge. The wastewater collection system spans from the Rainbow Meadows subdivision just north of the Motor Pool to County Road 318 south of Ignacio.
The responsibilities of the Wastewater Program are as follows:
- Treating daily wastewater
- Maintaining the treatment plant and collection system
- Oversight of all new taps and line extensions
- Keeping the effluent from the plant within EPA required limits
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Trash Program
Trash services to the Tribe are contracted out to professional trash companies.
The Utilities Division coordinates the services to Tribal members and Tribal businesses from the contracted company.
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Trash services to the Tribe include the following:
- 90 gallon polycarts or dumpsters
- Dumpsters from 2 yard to 8 yard
- Roll-off containers 20, 30, or 40 yard
- Cardboard Recycling
- Special Waste Disposal
- Special Event Trash Collection and Disposal
- Free trash disposal for Tribal members at the transfer station
- Free trash disposal for Tribal employees at the Bondad Landfill
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