Niverville Town Council has approved a $50,000 project that will connect a third well to their water treatment plant.

Mayor Myron Dyck says the current system uses two wells with ample capacity, but on high usage days very fine particles are stirred up that put stress on the reverse osmosis filtration system.

"We had originally three wells that were drilled, two are currently serving the needs of the town, we have essentially maxed those wells as far as the amount that we can filter, not the amount water we have. It is just we have this bottleneck with the filtering process."

Dyck says the town is currently looking for a new water source with that would have less fine particles, but the third well will be used in the interim. He notes the well was initially deemed not functional because of limited capacity.

"Friesen Drillers has gone in there now and done some assessment on that third well and we are going to be able to use it on a minimum capacity on an interim basis. Should we have high water usage days this spring or summer this third well will be able to be used as an auxiliary."

Dyck says it will cost $50,000 to run a line from the well to the water treatment plant, and that is what council has decided to do.