Just off the intersection of U.S. Highway 93 and Somers Stage Road, sits a gray concrete building, tall like an old chapel, with wooden scaffolding beginning to show signs of a roof. Posters with the quote, “Integrity: doing the right thing, when nobody is looking,” hang from a shipping container and general contracting firm Swank Enterprise’s job site office. The building is the bones of what is slated to become a new septage receiving facility for the Lakeside Water and Sewer District (LCWSD) and Flathead County.

Construction on the district’s new facility began in May, after the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) issued a wastewater permit to the district. The permit greenlit the first of a two-phase plan to upgrade and expand the facility’s capacity.

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