CHS looking for plant’s water source

Jamestown (CSi) Officials with the CHS fertilizer plant  say they will continue  with plans to build the $3 billion dollar plant, as they look for a local water source for operations.

The State Water Commission, which evaluates the availability of water and issues permits, said many of the water rights for the area already had been allocated.

Cenex Harvest States Pipeline LLC President John Traeger has met with the Bismarck City Commission to ask for approval of a study for a possible pipeline project.

CHS would like to purchase water from Bismarck’s water treatment plant or lease a portion of capacity from the city’s old water intake on the river.

He says if a pipeline is not feasible other options will be looked at.

The CHS plant at Spiritwood will produce more than 2,400 tons per day of anhydrous ammonia, and the converted to urea, for the fertilizer compound, urea-ammonium nitrate and diesel exhaust fuel.

It is one of two proposed fertilizer plants in the state expected to open within the next few years, the other, is a plant proposed by Dakota Gasification to produce urea at its Great Plains Synfuels Plant near Beulah.