Conway Village Fire District
Wastewater Interconnection & IMA
In 2013, after many years of hard work and good-faith negotiations between CVFD and NCWP, an Inter-Municipal Agreement (IMA) was entered into allowing for the disposal of wastewater from CVFD at the Precinct’s WWTF. CVFD had been under Administrative Order from the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services due to their failing wastewater lagoon system. This agreement was put together by both parties with the intention to benefit both CVFD and the Precinct, through multi-million-dollar savings for CVFD compared to building a new treatment facility and through cost-sharing for NCWP WWTF operations, maintenance, and future capital upgrades.
Since CVFD began sending flow to the Precinct’s WWTF in 2016, flow from Conway Village has averaged about 34% of the total wastewater flow received by the Precinct, and the additional flows and loadings have not adversely affected WWTF performance. The IMA and the hard work from all parties involved in putting it together are a living example of what the people of the Mount Washington Valley can accomplish when we work together.
Drinking Water Interconnection
North Conway Water Precinct also supplies drinking water to the northern end of Conway Village Fire District’s water distribution system through an automated interconnection. Prior to the interconnection, CVFD was unable to supply water at sufficient pressure and quantity to satisfy potential demand needed for fire flow. Because of this supply limitation, development had been restricted in that northern zone along the Route 16 corridor within the CVFD boundaries.
Additionally, the New Hampshire Department of Transportation needed to rehabilitate the Route 16 bridge over the Saco River, temporarily cutting off CVFD’s supply to that portion of their system altogether. The interconnection was designed and installed to automatically supply water from the Precinct whenever pressures dropped too low in that part of the CVFD system, providing fire flow as needed, removing the development restrictions, and allowing rehabilitation of the bridge over the Saco River.